How to format your references using the Acta Physiologica citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Acta Physiologica. 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 references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles 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

Hayes JM. Geochemistry. Earth’s redox history. Science. 2011;334(6063):1654–1655.

A journal article with 2 authors

Joron M, Brakefield PM. Captivity masks inbreeding effects on male mating success in butterflies. Nature. 2003;424(6945):191–194.

A journal article with 3 authors

Mlynarski SN, Schuster CH, Morken JP. Asymmetric synthesis from terminal alkenes by cascades of diboration and cross-coupling. Nature. 2014;505(7483):386–390.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Salvador JR, Guo F, Hogan T, Kanatzidis MG. Zero thermal expansion in YbGaGe due to an electronic valence transition. Nature. 2003;425(6959):702–705.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Mastro M. Financial Derivative and Energy Market Valuation. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ, 2013.

An edited book

Anselin L, Rey SJ (eds.). Perspectives on Spatial Data Analysis. Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

Lee N, Moghaddam FM, Harré R. Internationalizing the Social Psychology Curriculum in the USA. In: Leong FTL, Pickren WE, Leach MM, Marsella AJ (eds). Internationalizing the Psychology Curriculum in the United States. Springer: New York, NY, 2012, pp 75–93.

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 Acta Physiologica.

Blog post

O`Callaghan J. SpaceX May Start Launches Again As Soon As November After Rocket Explosion. IFLScience. 2016.https://www.iflscience.com/space/spacex-may-start-launches-again-as-soon-as-november-after-rocket-explosion/ (accessed 30 Oct2018).

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. Teacher Training Programs: Activities Underway to Improve Teacher Training, but Information Collected To Assess Accountability Has Limitations. U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 2002.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Estrada MI. A community risk assessment of the 90806 zip code. 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

Oestreich JR. Centuries Later, Delivering a Sibling to Beethoven. New York Times. 2017;:C2.

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	Acta Physiologica
ISSN (print)	1748-1708
ISSN (online)	1748-1716
Scope