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]

Hulbe CL. Glaciology. How ice sheets flow. Science 2001;294:2300–1.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Swirski FK, Nahrendorf M. Leukocyte behavior in atherosclerosis, myocardial infarction, and heart failure. Science 2013;339:161–6.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Deuss A, Irving JCE, Woodhouse JH. Regional variation of inner core anisotropy from seismic normal mode observations. Science 2010;328:1018–20.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Schroeder BC, Waldegger S, Fehr S, Bleich M, Warth R, Greger R, et al. A constitutively open potassium channel formed by KCNQ1 and KCNE3. Nature 2000;403:196–9.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Billington DP. Der Turm und die Brücke. D-69451 Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH; 2013.

An edited book

[1]

Murali R, editor. Graphene Nanoelectronics: From Materials to Circuits. Boston, MA: Springer US; 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Ciobanu G. Modeling Cell-Mediated Immunity by Means of P Systems. In: Ciobanu G, Păun G, Pérez-Jiménez MJ, editors. Applications of Membrane Computing, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2005, p. 159–80.

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]

Luntz S. Corals Beat Heat By Swapping Algal Partners. IFLScience 2015. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/coral-beat-heat-swapping-algal-partners/ (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. Implementation of the Small Business Innovation Development Act of 1982. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1985.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Wang T. Talking to Strangers: Chinese Youth and Social Media. Doctoral dissertation. University of California San Diego, 2013.

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]

Barron J. After Election, More New Yorkers Are Telling Volunteer Groups, ‘I Can Help.’ New York Times 2017:A14.

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