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

Dovidio JF. Psychology. Racial bias, unspoken but heard. Science. 2009 Dec;326(5960):1641–2.

A journal article with 2 authors

Sung S, Amasino RM. Vernalization in Arabidopsis thaliana is mediated by the PHD finger protein VIN3. Nature. 2004 Jan;427(6970):159–64.

A journal article with 3 authors

Lim MLM, Land MF, Li D. Sex-specific UV and fluorescence signals in jumping spiders. Science. 2007 Jan;315(5811):481.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Tan X, Calderon-Villalobos LIA, Sharon M, Zheng C, Robinson CV, Estelle M, et al. Mechanism of auxin perception by the TIR1 ubiquitin ligase. Nature. 2007 Apr;446(7136):640–5.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Raz D, Juhola A, Serrat-Fernandez J, Galis A. Fast and Efficient Context-Aware Services. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2006.

An edited book

Kő A, Francesconi E, editors. Electronic Government and the Information Systems Perspective: 4th International Conference, EGOVIS 2015, Valencia, Spain, September 1-3, 2015, Proceedings. 1st ed. 2015. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

Fukuoka Y, Verico K. Indonesia–China Economic Relations in the Twenty-First Century: Opportunities and Challenges. In: Kim Y-C, editor. Chinese Global Production Networks in ASEAN. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016; pp 53–75.

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

O`Callaghan J. This Robotic Finger Looks and Flexes Just Like Your Own [Internet]. IFLScience. 2015 Oct [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/technology/robotic-finger-looks-and-flexes-just-your-own/

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. Applying Agreed-Upon Procedures: Airport and Airway Trust Fund Excise Taxes. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2004.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Chaves JS. Novel approach for the creation of thin films and interconnects using single walled carbon nanotubes inkjet technology and bacteria. 2009

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

Cooper M. Temporary Home For Opera in Houston. New York Times. 2017 Sep;C3.

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

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