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

Whiten A. Animal behaviour: Incipient tradition in wild chimpanzees. Nature. 2014 Oct;514(7521):178–9.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kaib NA, Quinn T. Reassessing the source of long-period comets. Science. 2009 Sep;325(5945):1234–6.

A journal article with 3 authors

Molnar P, Houseman GA, England PC. Earth science: palaeo-altimetry of Tibet. Nature. 2006 Nov;444(7117):E4; discussion E4-5.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Fadrique B, Báez S, Duque Á, Malizia A, Blundo C, Carilla J, et al. Widespread but heterogeneous responses of Andean forests to climate change. Nature. 2018 Nov

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Millon T, Grossman S. Overcoming Resistant Personality Disorders. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2007.

An edited book

Gusak D. Theory of Stochastic Processes: With Applications to Financial Mathematics and Risk Theory. New York, NY: Springer; 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

Upton D, Upton P. Different Wound Type. In: Upton P, editor. Psychology of Wounds and Wound Care in Clinical Practice. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015; pp 113–42.

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

Andrews R. Researchers Can Now 3D Print Stem Cell “Building Blocks” [Internet]. IFLScience. 2015 Nov

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. NASA’s Standard Parts Program--Are the Objectives Being Accomplished? Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1981.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Peters AS. Bread and Washoku: Unveiling Japanese Identity Through the Necessity of Bread Baking. 2017

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

Turkewitz J. Mayor’s Arrest and Link to the Death of a Boy Have Divided a California City. New York Times. 2016 Aug;A16.

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