How to format your references using the Multidisciplinary Respiratory Medicine citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Multidisciplinary Respiratory Medicine. For a complete guide how to prepare your manuscript refer to the journal's instructions to authors.

Using reference management software

Typically you don't format your citations and bibliography by hand. The easiest way is to use a reference manager:

Paperpile	The citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNote	Find the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and others	The style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles are usually part of a LaTeX template. Check the instructions to authors if the publisher offers a LaTeX template for this journal.

Journal articles

Those examples are references to articles in scholarly journals and how they are supposed to appear in your bibliography.

Not all journals organize their published articles in volumes and issues, so these fields are optional. Some electronic journals do not provide a page range, but instead list an article identifier. In a case like this it's safe to use the article identifier instead of the page range.

A journal article with 1 author

1. Schiermeier Q. Fading support ends Europe’s dreams of neutron supremacy. Nature. 2003;421:563.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Schmidt M, Lipson H. Distilling free-form natural laws from experimental data. Science. 2009;324:81–5.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Tellis JC, Primer DN, Molander GA. Dual catalysis. Single-electron transmetalation in organoboron cross-coupling by photoredox/nickel dual catalysis. Science. 2014;345:433–6.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. LaHaye MD, Buu O, Camarota B, Schwab KC. Approaching the quantum limit of a nanomechanical resonator. Science. 2004;304:74–7.

Books and book chapters

Here are examples of references for authored and edited books as well as book chapters.

An authored book

1. Wierenga ER. The Philosophy of Religion. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2016.

An edited book

1. Shi YQ, editor. Transactions on Data Hiding and Multimedia Security IV. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Sakawa M, Nishizaki I, Katagiri H. Stochastic and Fuzzy Random Two-Level Programming. In: Nishizaki I, Katagiri H, editors. Fuzzy Stochastic Multiobjective Programming. New York, NY: Springer; 2011. p. 169–223.

Web sites

Sometimes references to web sites should appear directly in the text rather than in the bibliography. Refer to the Instructions to authors for Multidisciplinary Respiratory Medicine.

Blog post

1. Fang J. Triceratops Teeth Become Plant-Slicing Knives as They Strategically Wear Down With Use. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015.

Reports

This example shows the general structure used for government reports, technical reports, and scientific reports. If you can't locate the report number then it might be better to cite the report as a book. For reports it is usually not individual people that are credited as authors, but a governmental department or agency like "U. S. Food and Drug Administration" or "National Cancer Institute".

Government report

1. Government Accountability Office. Next Generation Air Transportation System: Progress and Challenges Associated with the Transformation of the National Airspace System. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2006 Nov. Report No.: GAO-07-25.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

1. Dhokar A. LabVIEW based simulation and animation for the vibration control of active mass damper [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2015.

News paper articles

Unlike scholarly journals, news papers do not usually have a volume and issue number. Instead, the full date and page number is required for a correct reference.

New York Times article

1. Chivers CJ, SOPHIA KISHKOVSKY; Erin Arvedlund contributed reporting from Moscow for this article. U.S. Investigative Journalist Is Shot to Death in Russia. New York Times. 2004 Jul 10;A4.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Multidisciplinary Respiratory Medicine
Abbreviation	Multidiscip. Respir. Med.
ISSN (online)	2049-6958
Scope	Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine

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