How to format your references using the Respiratory Medicine citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Respiratory Medicine. 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	Download the output style file
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]

D. Butler, France finally picks Parisian site for new synchrotron, Nature 407 (2000) 119–120.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

P. Wiessner, N. Pupu, Toward peace: foreign arms and indigenous institutions in a Papua New Guinea society, Science 337 (2012) 1651–1654.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

K. Keizer, S. Lindenberg, L. Steg, The spreading of disorder, Science 322 (2008) 1681–1685.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

X. Bai, D. Ma, A. Liu, X. Shen, Q.J. Wang, Y. Liu, Y. Jiang, Rheb activates mTOR by antagonizing its endogenous inhibitor, FKBP38, Science 318 (2007) 977–980.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

P. Bajpai, Environmentally Friendly Production of Pulp and Paper, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2010.

An edited book

[1]

A. Caner, P. Gülkan, K. Mahmoud, eds., Developments in International Bridge Engineering: Selected Papers from Istanbul Bridge Conference 2014, 1st ed. 2016, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

I. Kusche, Social Movements and Sociological Systems Theory, in: J. Roose, H. Dietz (Eds.), Social Theory and Social Movements: Mutual Inspirations, Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden, Wiesbaden, 2016: pp. 75–91.

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.

Blog post

[1]

J. Davis, M&M-Spewing Drones Employed To Tackle The Plague In Endangered Ferrets, IFLScience (2016). https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/mmspewing-drones-employed-to-tackle-the-plague-in-endangered-ferrets/ (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, Year 2000 Computing Crisis: Medicare and the Delivery of Health Services Are at Risk, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1999.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

L.B. Turner, Diet, physical activity and breast cancer risk: An integrative science cross-populational approach, Doctoral dissertation, Indiana University, 2012.

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]

K. Cordes, Mountaineering’s Greatest Climb Unravels, New York Times (2015) SR5.

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
Abbreviation	Respir. Med.
ISSN (print)	0954-6111
Scope	Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine