How to format your references using the Respiratory Research citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Respiratory 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	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. Berger F. Plant sciences. Imprinting--a green variation. Science. 2004;303:483–5.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Galloway LF, Etterson JR. Transgenerational plasticity is adaptive in the wild. Science. 2007;318:1134–6.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Lorsch JR, Collins FS, Lippincott-Schwartz J. Cell Biology. Fixing problems with cell lines. Science. 2014;346:1452–3.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Ravelo AC, Andreasen DH, Lyle M, Olivarez Lyle A, Wara MW. Regional climate shifts caused by gradual global cooling in the Pliocene epoch. Nature. 2004;429:263–7.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Lombard M. SolidWorks® 2011 Parts Bible. Indianapolis, IN, USA: Wiley Publishing, Inc.; 2011.

An edited book

1. Guger C, Allison B, Leuthardt EC, editors. Brain-Computer Interface Research: A State-of-the-Art Summary -2. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Chow BH. The Virtual-Reality Campuses Project. In: Cai Y, editor. 3D Immersive and Interactive Learning. Singapore: Springer; 2013. p. 59–70.

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 Research.

Blog post

1. Andrew E. Setting Priorities For Environmental Research Is Daunting When The Questions Are So Huge [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/setting-priorities-environmental-research-daunting-when-questions-are-so-huge/

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. Aviation Noise: Costs of Phasing Out Noisy Aircraft. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1991 Jul. Report No.: RCED-91-128.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Lewis PA. Love and hate: The study of school principals moving from job motivation to job frustration [Doctoral dissertation]. [Minneapolis, MN]: Capella 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. Yablonsky L. The Hebrew School. New York Times. 2008 Nov 16;M280.

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 Research
ISSN (online)	1465-993X
Scope