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]

Nakano H. Survey of the Japanese coast reveals abundant placozoan populations in the Northern Pacific Ocean. Sci Rep 2014;4:5356.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Lorenz MC, Fink GR. The glyoxylate cycle is required for fungal virulence. Nature 2001;412:83–6.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Han Y, Bai T, Liu W. Controlled heterogeneous stem cell differentiation on a shape memory hydrogel surface. Sci Rep 2014;4:5815.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Li R, Yi H, Hu X, Chen L, Shi G, Wang W, et al. Generation of diffraction-free optical beams using wrinkled membranes. Sci Rep 2013;3:2775.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Center for Chemical Process Safety. Guidelines for Chemical Transportation Safety, Security, and Risk Management. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2008.

An edited book

[1]

Gregory MA. Security and the Networked Society. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Kruegel C. Behavioral and Structural Properties of Malicious Code. In: Christodorescu M, Jha S, Maughan D, Song D, Wang C, editors. Malware Detection, Boston, MA: Springer US; 2007, p. 63–83.

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]

Luntz S. The Four Types Of Non-Vaccinators And How To Argue With Them. 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. Education Research: Education Should Improve Assessments of R&D Centers, Regional Labs, and Comprehensive Centers. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2002.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Puebla RA. The avant-garde tuba: Analysis and comparisons of interpretations of William Kraft’s Encounters II for unaccompanied tuba. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach, 2014.

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]

Williams J. Who Says Religion and Science Don’t Mix? 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