How to format your references using the World Journal of Respirology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for World Journal of Respirology. 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

Alward WLM. Biomedicine. A new angle on ocular development. Science 2003; 299: 1527–1528.

A journal article with 2 authors

Wilhite AW, Fong EA. Scientific publications. Coercive citation in academic publishing. Science 2012; 335: 542–543.

A journal article with 3 authors

Moritz CT, Perlmutter SI, Fetz EE. Direct control of paralysed muscles by cortical neurons. Nature 2008; 456: 639–642.

A journal article with 100 or more authors

Mobbs D, Petrovic P, Marchant JL, Hassabis D, Weiskopf N, Seymour B, Dolan RJ, Frith CD. When fear is near: threat imminence elicits prefrontal-periaqueductal gray shifts in humans. Science 2007; 317: 1079–1083.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Linder B. Thermodynamics and Introductory Statistical Mechanics. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Leone M, Martin C, Vincent J-L (eds). Uncommon Diseases in the ICU. Cham: Springer International Publishing

A chapter in an edited book

Cari C, Suparmi A. Application of Nikiforov-Uvarov Method for Non-central Potential System Solution. In: Gaol FL, Shrivastava K, Akhtar J, editors. Recent Trends in Physics of Material Science and Technology. Singapore: Springer, 2015: 67–93.

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 World Journal of Respirology.

Blog post

Andrew E. Invisibility Cloak Thinner Than Ever Before. IFLScience. 2015. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/technology/invisibility-cloak-thinner-ever/

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. Federal Government’s Use of International Data Corporation’s Subscription Services. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Larson EB. Bahamian Quaternary geology and the global carbon budget. 2014.

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

Walsh MW. Puerto Rico Development Bank Goes to Court for $400 Million in Taxes. New York Times. 2015; : B5.

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	World Journal of Respirology
ISSN (online)	2218-6255
Scope