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]

Winfree AT. Oscillating systems. On emerging coherence. Science 2002;298:2336–7.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Chan CE, Odde DJ. Traction dynamics of filopodia on compliant substrates. Science 2008;322:1687–91.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Liu Y, Wang J, Zhang X. Accurate determination of the vapor-liquid-solid contact line tension and the viability of Young equation. Sci Rep 2013;3:2008.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Kraft NJB, Comita LS, Chase JM, Sanders NJ, Swenson NG, Crist TO, et al. Disentangling the drivers of β diversity along latitudinal and elevational gradients. Science 2011;333:1755–8.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Trimble MR, George MS. Biological Psychiatry. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2010.

An edited book

[1]

Ghosh TK. Energy Resources and Systems: Volume 2: Renewable Resources. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Hilton M, Nelson N, McDonald H, McDonald S, Metoyer R, Dig D. TDDViz: Using Software Changes to Understand Conformance to Test Driven Development. In: Sharp H, Hall T, editors. Agile Processes, in Software Engineering, and Extreme Programming: 17th International Conference, XP 2016, Edinburgh, UK, May 24-27, 2016, Proceedings, Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016, p. 53–65.

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]

Andrew E. Shark Giving Birth Caught On Camera. IFLScience 2015. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/shark-giving-birth-caught-camera/ (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. School Choice: Private School Choice Programs Are Growing and Can Complicate Providing Certain Federally Funded Services to Eligible Students. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2016.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Gornto JS. The impact of student leadership in classroom management on student achievement. Doctoral dissertation. Northcentral University, 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

[1]

Waldstein D. Cleveland’s Renaissance Reaches the World Series. New York Times 2016:B12.

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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