How to format your references using the Respiratory Medicine: X citation style

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

B. Davis, Education. Mathematics teachers’ subtle, complex disciplinary knowledge, Science 332 (2011) 1506–1507.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

D. Quist, I.H. Chapela, Transgenic DNA introgressed into traditional maize landraces in Oaxaca, Mexico, Nature 414 (2001) 541–543.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

D.J. Siveter, M. Williams, D. Waloszek, A phosphatocopid crustacean with appendages from the Lower Cambrian, Science 293 (2001) 479–481.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

A.V. Fedorov, P.S. Dekens, M. McCarthy, A.C. Ravelo, P.B. deMenocal, M. Barreiro, R.C. Pacanowski, S.G. Philander, The Pliocene paradox (mechanisms for a permanent El Niño), Science 312 (2006) 1485–1489.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Center for Chemical Process Safety, Guidelines for Process Safety in Outsourced Manufacturing Operations, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2000.

An edited book

[1]

M. Mora, J. Marx Gómez, L. Garrido, F.C. Pérez, eds., Engineering and Management of IT-based Service Systems: An Intelligent Decision-Making Support Systems Approach, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

A. Gosavi, S. Murray, Simulation-based Methods for Studying Reliability and Preventive Maintenance of Public Infrastructure, in: J. Faulin, A.A. Juan, S. Martorell, J.-E. Ramírez-Márquez (Eds.), Simulation Methods for Reliability and Availability of Complex Systems, Springer, London, 2010: pp. 107–121.

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: X.

Blog post

[1]

A. Carpineti, Track Near-Earth Objects On Asteroid Day 2016, IFLScience (2016). https://www.iflscience.com/space/track-nearearth-objects-on-asteroid-day-2016/ (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, Student Enrollment and Attendance Reports in the Boston Public School System Are Substantially Accurate, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1976.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

J.N. McNeil, “I noticed something wrong”: Lived experiences of women of color who faced a protracted journey to diagnosis with lupus, Doctoral dissertation, Capella University, 2017.

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]

D. Bilefsky, Court Decides Not to Certify Ouster Vote In Romania, New York Times (2012) A8.

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: X
ISSN (print)	2590-1435
Scope