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]

Yarborough M. Openness in science is key to keeping public trust. Nature 2014;515:313.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Parish MM, Littlewood PB. Non-saturating magnetoresistance in heavily disordered semiconductors. Nature 2003;426:162–5.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Sánchez I, Mahlke C, Yuan J. Pivotal role of oligomerization in expanded polyglutamine neurodegenerative disorders. Nature 2003;421:373–9.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Kramer G, Rauch T, Rist W, Vorderwülbecke S, Patzelt H, Schulze-Specking A, et al. L23 protein functions as a chaperone docking site on the ribosome. Nature 2002;419:171–4.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Higgs J, Titchen A. Professional Practice in Health, Education and the Creative Arts. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Science Ltd; 2008.

An edited book

[1]

Beljonne D, Cornil J, editors. Multiscale Modelling of Organic and Hybrid Photovoltaics. vol. 352. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Reichart G, Leen G, Courmont N, Knüppel R, Schmid C, Brockmann M. Applications. In: Lawrenz W, editor. CAN System Engineering: From Theory to Practical Applications, London: Springer; 2013, p. 255–82.

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 D. First Dinosaur Brain Fossil Suggests They May Have Been Smarter Than We Thought. IFLScience 2016. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/first-dinosaur-brain-fossil-suggests-they-may-have-been-smarter-than-we-thought/ (accessed October 30, 2018).

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. Critical Infrastructure Protection: National Plan for Information Systems Protection. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2000.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Nguyen C. Supportive services for immigrants: A grant proposal. 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]

Stewart JB. Iconic Retailer in Slow Decline. New York Times 2017:B1.

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

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