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]

Graham-Rowe D. Therapeutics: Strength in numbers. Nature 2012;489:S16-7.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Podsiadlowski P, Justham S. Astronomy. Big bang points to stellar mix-up. Science 2006;314:1551–2.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Tang C, Iwahara J, Clore GM. Visualization of transient encounter complexes in protein-protein association. Nature 2006;444:383–6.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Mitsui T, Rose MK, Fomin E, Ogletree DF, Salmeron M. Water diffusion and clustering on Pd(111). Science 2002;297:1850–2.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Rouse WB. Universities as Complex Enterprises. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc; 2016.

An edited book

[1]

Seiffert S, editor. Supramolecular Polymer Networks and Gels. vol. 268. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Johnson MR. A Primer on Economic Choice Automata. In: Binder C, Codognato G, Teschl M, Xu Y, editors. Individual and Collective Choice and Social Welfare: Essays in Honor of Nick Baigent, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2015, p. 65–94.

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]

Luntz S. Deepest Sign of Life Ever Detected. IFLScience 2014. https://www.iflscience.com/physics/deepest-sign-life-ever-detected/ (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. Digests of Unpublished Decisions of the Comptroller General of the United States, Vol. III, No. 2. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1986.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Oh Y. Prediction of Steady State Response in Dynamic Mode Atomic Force Microscopy and Its Applications in Nano-metrology. Doctoral dissertation. Ohio State University, 2006.

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]

Nagourney A, Berger J. Horror at Desert Ritual as Racer Flips Into Crowd. New York Times 2010:A1.

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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