How to format your references using the Respiratory Investigation citation style

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

Shelton JD. Ensuring health in universal health coverage. Nature 2013;493:453.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Cooper KM, Kent AJR. Rapid remobilization of magmatic crystals kept in cold storage. Nature 2014;506:480–3.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Meyers MA, McKittrick J, Chen P-Y. Structural biological materials: critical mechanics-materials connections. Science 2013;339:773–9.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Ito H, Yamada R, Tamura A, Arai S, Horie K, Hokada T. Earth’s youngest exposed granite and its tectonic implications: the 10-0.8 Ma Kurobegawa Granite. Sci Rep 2013;3:1306.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Balani K, Verma V, Agarwal A, Narayan R. Biosurfaces. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc; 2014.

An edited book

[1]

Mathew J, Shafik RA, Pradhan DK, editors. Energy-Efficient Fault-Tolerant Systems. New York, NY: Springer; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Jocksch A, Hariri F, Tran T-M, Brunner S, Gheller C, Villard L. A Bucket Sort Algorithm for the Particle-In-Cell Method on Manycore Architectures. In: Wyrzykowski R, Deelman E, Dongarra J, Karczewski K, Kitowski J, Wiatr K, editors. Parallel Processing and Applied Mathematics: 11th International Conference, PPAM 2015, Krakow, Poland, September 6-9, 2015. Revised Selected Papers, Part I, Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016, p. 43–52.

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 Investigation.

Blog post

[1]

Andrew D. Searching Deep And Dark: Building A Google For The Less Visible Parts Of The Web. 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. Railroad Safety: Weaknesses in FRA’s Safety Program. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1991.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Wilson EM. Lessons Learned from the Gender Wage Gap in the Federal Workforce: Structural Changes and Temporal Flexibility are Only the First Step to Equality. Doctoral dissertation. George Washington University, 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]

Wagner J. Extra Innings and Late-Game Twists. New York Times 2017:A2.

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	Respiratory Investigation
ISSN (print)	2212-5345
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