How to format your references using the Paediatric Respiratory Reviews citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Paediatric Respiratory Reviews. 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]

Whitney B. Astronomy. Forming massive stars. Science 2009;323:719–20.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Tissenbaum HA, Guarente L. Increased dosage of a sir-2 gene extends lifespan in Caenorhabditis elegans. Nature 2001;410:227–30.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Shcherbina AY, Talley LD, Rudnick DL. Direct observations of North Pacific ventilation: brine rejection in the Okhotsk Sea. Science 2003;302:1952–5.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Schulze DJ, Harte B, Valley JW, Brenan JM, Channer DMDR. Extreme crustal oxygen isotope signatures preserved in coesite in diamond. Nature 2003;423:68–70.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Anisman H. Stress and Your Health. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2015.

An edited book

[1]

Nguyen HT. Computing Statistics under Interval and Fuzzy Uncertainty: Applications to Computer Science and Engineering. vol. 393. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Rajamani SK. Verification, Testing and Statistics. In: Cavalcanti A, Dams DR, editors. FM 2009: Formal Methods: Second World Congress, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, November 2-6, 2009. Proceedings, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2009, p. 33–40.

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 Paediatric Respiratory Reviews.

Blog post

[1]

Andrews R. Baby Birds May Reveal How Flight Evolved In Their Dinosaur Ancestors. IFLScience 2016.

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. Financial Management Systems: Status of OMB’s Review of Financial System Projects. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2012.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Shenasi SY. The Roots of Music Therapy: Healing the Wounds of the Psyche. Doctoral dissertation. Pacifica Graduate Institute, 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]

Sisario B. After a Half-Century in Music, Still Hunting for Hits. New York Times 2017:C5.

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	Paediatric Respiratory Reviews
Abbreviation	Paediatr. Respir. Rev.
ISSN (print)	1526-0542
Scope	Pediatrics, Perinatology, and Child Health Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine