How to format your references using the Revue de Pneumologie clinique citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Revue de Pneumologie clinique. 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]

Sarewitz D. Reproducibility will not cure what ails science. Nature 2015;525:159.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Fowler JH, Schreiber D. Biology, politics, and the emerging science of human nature. Science 2008;322:912–4.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Chen I, Christie PJ, Dubnau D. The ins and outs of DNA transfer in bacteria. Science 2005;310:1456–60.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Yin Y, Cheng Z, Wang L, Jin K, Wang W. Graphene, a material for high temperature devices--intrinsic carrier density, carrier drift velocity, and lattice energy. Sci Rep 2014;4:5758.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Hoffman RV. Organic Chemistry. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2004.

An edited book

[1]

Hollo EJ, Kulovesi K, Mehling M, editors. Climate Change and the Law. vol. 21. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Blomquist GE, Kowalewski MM, Leigh SR. Demographic and Morphological Perspectives on Life History Evolution and Conservation of New World Monkeys. In: Garber PA, Estrada A, Bicca-Marques JC, Heymann EW, Strier KB, editors. South American Primates: Comparative Perspectives in the Study of Behavior, Ecology, and Conservation, New York, NY: Springer; 2009, p. 117–38.

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 Revue de Pneumologie clinique.

Blog post

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Carpineti A. Star Might Have Been Faking A Supernova Explosion. IFLScience 2017. https://www.iflscience.com/space/star-might-have-been-faking-a-supernova-explosion/ (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. Distance Learning: Opportunities Exist for DOD to Capitalize on Services’ Efforts. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1997.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Pearson D. A High-Level Fuzzy Logic Guidance System for an Unmanned Surface Vehicle (USV) Tasked to Perform an Autonomous Launch and Recovery (ALR) of an Unmanned Underwater Vehicle (UUV). Doctoral dissertation. Florida Atlantic University, 2014.

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]

Walsh MW, Dewan S. Governors’ Rulings Mean Lower Deductibles for Storm-Tossed Homeowners. New York Times 2012:B4.

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	Revue de Pneumologie clinique
Abbreviation	Rev. Pneumol. Clin.
ISSN (print)	0761-8417
Scope	Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine