How to format your references using the Respiration citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Respiration. 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	Download the output style file
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

Gammon K. Drugs: Blood battles. Nature. 2013 Jan;493(7434):S14-5.

A journal article with 2 authors

Raine NE, Gill RJ. Ecology: Tasteless pesticides affect bees in the field. Nature. 2015 May;521(7550):38–40.

A journal article with 3 authors

Liu XC, Zhang HW, Lu K. Strain-induced ultrahard and ultrastable nanolaminated structure in nickel. Science. 2013 Oct;342(6156):337–40.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Kaspi Y, Galanti E, Hubbard WB, Stevenson DJ, Bolton SJ, Iess L, et al. Jupiter’s atmospheric jet streams extend thousands of kilometres deep. Nature. 2018 Mar;555(7695):223–6.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Chen W, Xiao H, Wang Q, Zhao L, Zhu M. Integrated Vehicle Dynamics and Control. Singapore: John Wiley & Sons Singapore Pte. Ltd; 2016.

An edited book

Scerri E, McIntyre L, editors. Philosophy of Chemistry: Growth of a New Discipline. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

Shabtai A, Elovici Y, Rokach L. Data Leakage/Misuse Scenarios. In: Elovici Y, Rokach L, editors. A Survey of Data Leakage Detection and Prevention Solutions. Boston, MA: Springer US; 2012; pp 39–46.

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 Respiration.

Blog post

Fang J. Electric Bacteria Eat Electrons [Internet]. IFLScience. 2014 Jul [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/electric-bacteria-eat-electrons/

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. St. Louis Postal Data Center’s Administration of Accounts Payable. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1970.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Buchigari SR. A tool to automate the process of Unit testing of webapplications (Criterion V1.0). 2010

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

(nyt) SK. World Briefing | Europe: Russia: Judge From 1993 Standoff Returns To Post. New York Times. 2003 Feb;A5.

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	Respiration
Abbreviation	Respiration
ISSN (print)	0025-7931
ISSN (online)	1423-0356
Scope	Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine