How to format your references using the Respiratory Medicine and Research citation style

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

Hardie DG. Transcription. Targeting the core of transcription. Science 2010;329:1158–9.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Belkaid Y, Segre JA. Dialogue between skin microbiota and immunity. Science 2014;346:954–9.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Gugliotti LA, Feldheim DL, Eaton BE. RNA-mediated metal-metal bond formation in the synthesis of hexagonal palladium nanoparticles. Science 2004;304:850–2.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Wu Y-KR, Hollowell AE, Zhang C, Guo LJ. Angle-insensitive structural colours based on metallic nanocavities and coloured pixels beyond the diffraction limit. Sci Rep 2013;3:1194.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Uribe S. Frontier Road. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2017.

An edited book

[1]

Sutradhar BC, editor. Advances and Challenges in Parametric and Semi-parametric Analysis for Correlated Data: Proceedings of the 2015 International Symposium in Statistics. vol. 218. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Sergej T, Mantiuk R. Perceptual Evaluation of Demosaicing Artefacts. In: Campilho A, Kamel M, editors. Image Analysis and Recognition: 11th International Conference, ICIAR 2014, Vilamoura, Portugal, October 22-24, 2014, Proceedings, Part I, Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2014, p. 38–45.

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 Medicine and Research.

Blog post

[1]

Andrews R. Millions Of Penguins Are About To Be Smothered By A Volcanic Eruption. IFLScience 2016.

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. Hospital Quality Data: HHS Should Specify Steps and Time Frame for Using Information Technology to Collect and Submit Data. 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

[1]

Prakash A. Empire on the Seine: Surveillance, Citizenship, and North African Migrants in Paris (1925–1975). Doctoral dissertation. Columbia University, 2010.

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]

RICHARD BERNSTEIN; Sophia Kishkovsky contributed reporting from Moscow for this article, Judy Dempsey of The International Herald Tribune from Berlin. After Centuries of Enmity, Relations Between Poland and Russia Are as Bad as Ever. New York Times 2005:14.

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 Medicine and Research
ISSN (print)	2590-0412
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