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:

PaperpileThe citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNoteFind the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and othersThe style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeXBibTeX 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]
Conley DJ. Ecology: save the Baltic Sea. Nature 2012;486:463–4.
A journal article with 2 authors
[1]
Rubenstein DR, Lovette IJ. Reproductive skew and selection on female ornamentation in social species. Nature 2009;462:786–9.
A journal article with 3 authors
[1]
Cattadori IM, Haydon DT, Hudson PJ. Parasites and climate synchronize red grouse populations. Nature 2005;433:737–41.
A journal article with 7 or more authors
[1]
Paladini C, Baron F, Jorissen A, Le Bouquin J-B, Freytag B, Van Eck S, et al. Large granulation cells on the surface of the giant star π1 Gruis. Nature 2018;553:310–2.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
[1]
El-Reedy MA. Construction Management for Industrial Projects. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2011.
An edited book
[1]
Niazi MA. Cognitive Agent-based Computing-I: A Unified Framework for Modeling Complex Adaptive Systems using Agent-based & Complex Network-based Methods. vol. 1. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2013.
A chapter in an edited book
[1]
Webster M. Grenz Ray and Ultrasoft X-Ray Therapy. In: Panizzon RG, Seegenschmiedt MH, editors. Radiation Treatment and Radiation Reactions in Dermatology, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2015, p. 73–87.

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
[1]
Luntz S. New Paper Suggests Tatooine-type Planets Could Be Common. IFLScience 2015. https://www.iflscience.com/space/no-obstacle-tatooine-type-planets/ (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. Review of the Policies and Procedures of the Office of Education in Administering Contracts Awarded for the Purpose of Studying or Evaluating Educational Programs. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1971.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation
[1]
Kinney EL. Isolation, identification, and antimicrobial susceptibility analysis of Enterococccus spp. and Salmonella spp. from conventional poultry farms transitioning to organic farming practices. Doctoral dissertation. University of Maryland, College Park, 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]
Crow K. Along The Waterfront, Politics And a Purge. New York Times 2003:147.

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 titleRevue de Pneumologie clinique
AbbreviationRev. Pneumol. Clin.
ISSN (print)0761-8417
ScopePulmonary and Respiratory Medicine

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