How to format your references using the Multidisciplinary Respiratory Medicine citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Multidisciplinary Respiratory Medicine. 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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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. Hardebeck JL. Stress orientations in subduction zones and the strength of subduction megathrust faults. Science. 2015;349:1213–6.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Screen JA, Simmonds I. The central role of diminishing sea ice in recent Arctic temperature amplification. Nature. 2010;464:1334–7.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Lisiecki LE, Raymo ME, Curry WB. Atlantic overturning responses to Late Pleistocene climate forcings. Nature. 2008;456:85–8.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Mikhael J, Roth J, Helden L, Bechinger C. Archimedean-like tiling on decagonal quasicrystalline surfaces. Nature. 2008;454:501–4.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Spatschek K-H. High Temperature Plasmas. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; 2011.

An edited book

1. Ashgriz N, editor. Handbook of Atomization and Sprays: Theory and Applications. Boston, MA: Springer US; 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Grancharova A, Johansen TA. Explicit MPC of Constrained Nonlinear Systems with Quantized Inputs. In: Johansen TA, editor. Explicit Nonlinear Model Predictive Control: Theory and Applications. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2012. p. 111–25.

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 Multidisciplinary Respiratory Medicine.

Blog post

1. Carpineti A. Scientists Have Modeled What Gravitiational Waves From The Big Bang Might Look Like. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2017.

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. NASA Contract Management: Improving the Use of DCAA’s Auditing Services. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1994 Sep. Report No.: NSIAD-94-229.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Beck AJ. Determining Bed Failure Depth in Unconsolidated Submarine Sediments Using Particles in Cell Numerical Modeling [Doctoral dissertation]. [ Lafayette, LA]: University of Louisiana; 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. Saslow L. List of Weak Schools Claims 2, Removes One. New York Times. 2007 Mar 25;14LI2.

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	Multidisciplinary Respiratory Medicine
Abbreviation	Multidiscip. Respir. Med.
ISSN (online)	2049-6958
Scope	Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine