How to format your references using the Respiratory Medicine: X citation style

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

R.A. Kerr, PLANETARY SCIENCE: Making a Splash With a Hint of Mars Water, Science 288 (2000) 2295–2297.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

C.J. Ödman-Govender, D. Kelleghan, SPORE series winner. Astronomical perspectives for young children, Science 333 (2011) 1106–1107.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

M. Moreno, M. Rosenau, O. Oncken, 2010 Maule earthquake slip correlates with pre-seismic locking of Andean subduction zone, Nature 467 (2010) 198–202.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

E. Goulielmakis, V.S. Yakovlev, A.L. Cavalieri, M. Uiberacker, V. Pervak, A. Apolonski, R. Kienberger, U. Kleineberg, F. Krausz, Attosecond control and measurement: lightwave electronics, Science 317 (2007) 769–775.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

N. Carroll, Minerva’s Night Out, A John Wiley & Sons, Oxford, 2013.

An edited book

[1]

J.F. Tomashefski, P.T. Cagle, C.F. Farver, A.E. Fraire, eds., Dail and Hammar’s Pulmonary Pathology: Volume II: Neoplastic Lung Disease, Third Edition, Springer, New York, NY, 2008.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Y.O. Isselmou, H. Wackernagel, W. Tabbara, J. Wiart, Geostatistical Estimation of Electromagnetic Exposure, in: A. Soares, M.J. Pereira, R. Dimitrakopoulos (Eds.), geoENV VI – Geostatistics for Environmental Applications: Proceedings of the Sixth European Conference on Geostatistics for Environmental Applications, Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 2008: pp. 59–70.

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 Medicine: X.

Blog post

[1]

J. O`Callaghan, Dramatic Video Of Yesterday’s SpaceX Rocket Explosion, And What It Means For The Company, IFLScience (2016). https://www.iflscience.com/space/dramatic-video-of-spacex-rocket-explosion-and-what-it-means-for-the-company/ (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

[1]

Government Accountability Office, Nanomanufacturing and U.S. Competitiveness: Challenges and Opportunities, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2014.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

S.N. Beechey, The politics of deservingness: Discourses of gender, race, *class, and age in the 2005 Social Security debates, Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University, 2008.

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]

M. Kinsley, Paid Leave Counts as Progress, New York Times (2017) SR3.

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 Medicine: X
ISSN (print)	2590-1435
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