How to format your references using the World Journal of Respirology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for World Journal of Respirology. 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

Berner RA. The long-term carbon cycle, fossil fuels and atmospheric composition. Nature 2003; 426: 323–326.

A journal article with 2 authors

Apesteguía S, Novas FE. Large Cretaceous sphenodontian from Patagonia provides insight into lepidosaur evolution in Gondwana. Nature 2003; 425: 609–612.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bidle KD, Manganelli M, Azam F. Regulation of oceanic silicon and carbon preservation by temperature control on bacteria. Science 2002; 298: 1980–1984.

A journal article with 100 or more authors

Li D, Bi F-F, Chen N-N, Cao J-M, Sun W-P, Zhou Y-M, Li C-Y, Yang Q. A novel crosstalk between BRCA1 and sirtuin 1 in ovarian cancer. Sci Rep 2014; 4: 6666.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Center for Chemical Process Safety. Tools for Making Acute Risk Decisions. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Tosti A, Hexsel D (eds). Update in Cosmetic Dermatology. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer

A chapter in an edited book

Gao S, Li Z, Yu J, Gao X, Wu W. DNA Library Screening, Pooling Design and Unitary Spaces. In: Du D-Z, Hu X, Pardalos PM, editors. Combinatorial Optimization and Applications: Third International Conference, COCOA 2009, Huangshan, China, June 10-12, 2009. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2009: 49–60.

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 World Journal of Respirology.

Blog post

Davis J. Floating Plastic Found Within The Arctic Circle. 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

Government Accountability Office. National Airspace System: Status of FAA’s Standard Terminal Automation Replacement System. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Harris DW. An examination of the impact of computer-based animations and visualization sequence on student understanding of Hadley Cells in atmospheric circulation. 2012.

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

Crow K. Looking for Wiseguys In the Land of Checked Tablecloths. New York Times. 2002; : 146.

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	World Journal of Respirology
ISSN (online)	2218-6255
Scope