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]

Triendl R. Back to basics. Nature 2002;420:7.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Brown LS, Lankford WF. Sustainability: Clean cooking empowers women. Nature 2015;521:284–5.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Lazzaro BP, Sceurman BK, Clark AG. Genetic basis of natural variation in D. melanogaster antibacterial immunity. Science 2004;303:1873–6.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Katsyuba E, Mottis A, Zietak M, De Franco F, van der Velpen V, Gariani K, et al. De novo NAD+ synthesis enhances mitochondrial function and improves health. Nature 2018;563:354–9.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Fant KM. Logically Determined Design. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2005.

An edited book

[1]

Atzmueller M, Chin A, Helic D, Hotho A, editors. Modeling and Mining Ubiquitous Social Media: International Workshops MSM 2011, Boston, MA, USA, October 9, 2011, and MUSE 2011, Athens, Greece, September 5, 2011, Revised Selected Papers. vol. 7472. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Cloos P. The Role of Histone Demethylases in Disease. In: Roach HI, Bronner F, Oreffo ROC, editors. Epigenetic Aspects of Chronic Diseases, London: Springer; 2011, p. 75–93.

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. Ode To The Fruit Fly: Tiny Lab Subject Crucial To Basic Research. 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. National Airspace System: FAA’s Approach to Its New Communications System Appears Prudent, but Challenges Remain. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2002.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Schwartz DA. Safe Travels? An Examination of the Search and Rescue Policies and Capabilities in the Northwest Passage Region. 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]

Gottlieb S, Emanuel EJ. No, There Won’t Be a Doctor Shortage. New York Times 2013:A35.

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

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