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]

Nordlander P. Applied physics. Molecular tuning of quantum plasmon resonances. Science 2014;343:1444–5.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Otsuki M, Matsukawa H. Systematic breakdown of Amontons’ law of friction for an elastic object locally obeying Amontons’ law. Sci Rep 2013;3:1586.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Dahl CD, Chen C-C, Rasch MJ. Own-race and own-species advantages in face perception: a computational view. Sci Rep 2014;4:6654.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Wang J, Chen L, Li L, He J, Chen J, Jiang C, et al. Preliminary identification of palaeofloods with the alkane ratio C31/C17 and their potential link to global climate changes. Sci Rep 2014;4:6502.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Audibert P. Mathematics for Informatics and Computer Science. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2013.

An edited book

[1]

Weisburd D, Farrington DP, Gill C, editors. What Works in Crime Prevention and Rehabilitation: Lessons from Systematic Reviews. New York, NY: Springer; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Watts DP. Dominance, Power, and Politics in Nonhuman and Human Primates. In: Kappeler PM, Silk J, editors. Mind the Gap: Tracing the Origins of Human Universals, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2010, p. 109–38.

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 des Maladies Respiratoires.

Blog post

[1]

Andrew E. New Battery Biodegrades Inside The Human Body. IFLScience 2014. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/new-battery-biodegrades-inside-human-body/ (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. Need for Additional Bilingual Education Teachers and the Availability of Training Programs To Prepare Them for Classroom Service. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1974.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Miller A. Group Mentoring Program to Empower Transitional-Aged Youth: A Grant Proposal. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach, 2017.

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]

Bosman J, Smith M, Wines M. Videos of Police Shootings Give Few Easy Answers. New York Times 2017:A10.

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