How to format your references using the Respiratory Care Journal citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Respiratory Care Journal. 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

Krakauer AH. Kin selection and cooperative courtship in wild turkeys. Nature 2005;434(7029):69–72.

A journal article with 2 authors

Whalan S, Webster NS. Sponge larval settlement cues: the role of microbial biofilms in a warming ocean. Sci Rep 2014;4:4072.

A journal article with 3 authors

Karnath HO, Ferber S, Himmelbach M. Spatial awareness is a function of the temporal not the posterior parietal lobe. Nature 2001;411(6840):950–953.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Chen Z, Zhang T, Lin J, Yan Z, Wang Y, Zheng W, et al. GeneSense: a new approach for human gene annotation integrated with protein-protein interaction networks. Sci Rep 2014;4:4474.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Provost JJ, Colabroy KL, Kelly BS, Wallert MA. The Science of Cooking. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc; 2016.

An edited book

Purushothaman S, Abraham R, editors. Livelihood Strategies in Southern India: Conservation and Poverty Reduction in Forest Fringes. New Delhi: Springer India; 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

Luches P, D’Addato S. Reducible Oxides as Ultrathin Epitaxial Films. In: Netzer FP, Fortunelli A, editors. Oxide Materials at the Two-Dimensional Limit. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016:119–148.

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 Respiratory Care Journal.

Blog post

Fang J. World’s Oldest Blood Cells Preserved in Ötzi the Iceman. IFLScience (https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/worlds-oldest-blood-cells-preserved-tzi-iceman/, 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

Government Accountability Office. Supplemental Student Loans: Legislative Changes Have Sharply Reduced Loan Volume. HRD-90-149FS; Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; August 3, 1990.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Liyakath RA. Reconfigurable Antenna and RF Circuits Using Multi-Layer Stretchable Conductors. Doctoral Dissertation; University of South Florida; 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

Koblin J. HBO’s ‘Game of Thrones’ Gets an End Date. New York Times, August 1, 2016, B4.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

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	Respiratory Care Journal
ISSN (print)	0020-1324
ISSN (online)	1943-3654
Scope