How to format your references using the Respiratory Investigation citation style

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

Carucci D. Know thine enemy. Nature 2004;430:944–5.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Matsumoto K, Tanaka K. Neuroscience. Conflict and cognitive control. Science 2004;303:969–70.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Lan R, Irvine JTS, Tao S. Synthesis of ammonia directly from air and water at ambient temperature and pressure. Sci Rep 2013;3:1145.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Johnson RE, Washington MT, Haracska L, Prakash S, Prakash L. Eukaryotic polymerases iota and zeta act sequentially to bypass DNA lesions. Nature 2000;406:1015–9.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Hewitt A. Construction Claims & Responses. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2016.

An edited book

[1]

Mitu B, Poulakidakos S, editors. Media Events: A Critical Contemporary Approach. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Ettl M, Sourirajan K, Huang P, Ervolina TR, Lin GY. Supply and Demand Synchronization in Assemble-to-Order Supply Chains. In: Kempf KG, Keskinocak P, Uzsoy R, editors. Planning Production and Inventories in the Extended Enterprise: A State-of-the-Art Handbook, Volume 2, New York, NY: Springer; 2011, p. 81–103.

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 Respiratory Investigation.

Blog post

[1]

Andrew E. Caterpillar uses toxic breath as a defense mechanism. IFLScience 2014.

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. Public Transportation: Use of Contractors is Generally Enhancing Transit Project Oversight, and FTA is Taking Actions to Address Some Stakeholder Concerns. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2010.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Shah N. High Performance Cryptography for Electronic Product Code for Internet of Things Applications. Doctoral dissertation. University of Louisiana, 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

[1]

Hess FM, Darling-Hammond L. How to Rescue Education Reform. New York Times 2011:A29.

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	Respiratory Investigation
ISSN (print)	2212-5345
Scope