How to format your references using the Respiration citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Respiration. 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	Download the output style file
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

Montesi LGJ. Planetary science. Solving the mascon mystery. Science. 2013 Jun;340(6140):1535–6.

A journal article with 2 authors

Smetacek V, Zingone A. Green and golden seaweed tides on the rise. Nature. 2013 Dec;504(7478):84–8.

A journal article with 3 authors

Tucker WC, Weber T, Chapman ER. Reconstitution of Ca2+-regulated membrane fusion by synaptotagmin and SNAREs. Science. 2004 Apr;304(5669):435–8.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Cebe P, Hu X, Kaplan DL, Zhuravlev E, Wurm A, Arbeiter D, et al. Beating the heat--fast scanning melts silk beta sheet crystals. Sci Rep. 2013 Jan;3:1130.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bouchet O. Wireless Optical Communications. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc; 2012.

An edited book

Ystad S, Kronland-Martinet R, Jensen K, editors. Computer Music Modeling and Retrieval. Genesis of Meaning in Sound and Music: 5th International Symposium, CMMR 2008 Copenhagen, Denmark, May 19-23, 2008 Revised Papers. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

Koshev N, Beilina L. A Posteriori Error Estimates for Fredholm Integral Equations of the First Kind. In: Beilina L, editor. Applied Inverse Problems: Select Contributions from the First Annual Workshop on Inverse Problems. New York, NY: Springer; 2013; pp 75–93.

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 Respiration.

Blog post

Fang J. Why Smaller Mammals Are More Susceptible To Cancer [Internet]. IFLScience. 2014 Jul [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/why-smaller-mammals-are-more-susceptible-cancer/

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

Government Accountability Office. Aviation Security: Cost Estimates Related to TSA Funding of Checked Baggage Screening Systems at Los Angeles and Ontario Airports. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2007.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Qian J. Characterization of Transcription-independent APC Tumor Suppressor Function in Apoptosis. 2006

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

(nyt) SK. World Briefing | Middle East: Qatar: Death Sought For Russians. New York Times. 2004 Jun;A11.

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	Respiration
Abbreviation	Respiration
ISSN (print)	0025-7931
ISSN (online)	1423-0356
Scope	Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine