How to format your references using the Revue des Maladies Respiratoires citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Revue des Maladies Respiratoires. 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]

Paz JP. Computer science. Randomness in quantum computation. Science 2003;302:2076–7.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Arnold K, Zuberbühler K. Language evolution: semantic combinations in primate calls. Nature 2006;441:303.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Stern M, Umansky V, Bar-Joseph I. Exciton liquid in coupled quantum wells. Science 2014;343:55–7.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

van de Koppel J, Gascoigne JC, Theraulaz G, Rietkerk M, Mooij WM, Herman PMJ. Experimental evidence for spatial self-organization and its emergent effects in mussel bed ecosystems. Science 2008;322:739–42.

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 Chemical Process Quantitative Risk Analysis. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2010.

An edited book

[1]

Schoepf UJ, Bamberg F, Ruzsics B, Vliegenthart R, Bastarrika G, editors. CT Imaging of Myocardial Perfusion and Viability: Beyond Structure and Function. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Kapetanakis S, Petridis M. Evaluating a Case-Based Reasoning Architecture for the Intelligent Monitoring of Business Workflows. In: Montani S, Jain LC, editors. Successful Case-based Reasoning Applications-2, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2014, p. 43–54.

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 des Maladies Respiratoires.

Blog post

[1]

Hamilton K. Satellite Image Of The Aral Sea Looks Like An Abstract Painting. IFLScience 2015.

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. Bureau of Indian Affairs Contracts for Automatic Data Processing Management Services, and for Development of a Management Information System at the Colorado River Indian Reservation. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1973.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Kelly EJ. What experiences create and nurture a love of science? Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach, 2016.

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]

Ember S. An Era’s End. New York Times 2017:B1.

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 des Maladies Respiratoires
Abbreviation	Rev. Mal. Respir.
ISSN (print)	0761-8425
Scope	Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine