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 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

Fauci AS. Biodefence on the research agenda. Nature. 2003;421(6925):787.

A journal article with 2 authors

Sharma P, Allison JP. The future of immune checkpoint therapy. Science. 2015;348(6230):56–61.

A journal article with 3 authors

Schuler B, Lipman EA, Eaton WA. Probing the free-energy surface for protein folding with single-molecule fluorescence spectroscopy. Nature. 2002;419(6908):743–747.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Elde NC, Child SJ, Geballe AP, Malik HS. Protein kinase R reveals an evolutionary model for defeating viral mimicry. Nature. 2009;457(7228):485–489.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Owen JS, Fiedler-Kelly J. Introduction to Population Pharmacokinetic / Pharmacodynamic Analysis with Nonlinear Mixed Effects Models. John Wiley & Sons, Inc: Hoboken, New Jersey, 2014.

An edited book

Brodowski D, Espinoza de los Monteros de la Parra M, Tiedemann K, Vogel J (eds.). Regulating Corporate Criminal Liability. Springer International Publishing: Cham, 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

Benz A, Salfner F. Discourse Structuring Questions and Scalar Implicatures. In: Bezhanishvili G, Löbner S, Marra V, Richter F (eds). Logic, Language, and Computation: 9th International Tbilisi Symposium on Logic, Language, and Computation, TbiLLC 2011, Kutaisi, Georgia, September 26-30, 2011, Revised Selected Papers. Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2013, pp 35–50.

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

Fang J. Indo-European Languages Originated 6,000 Years Ago in Russian Grasslands. IFLScience. 2015.https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/indo-european-languages-may-have-originated-6000-years-ago-russian-grasslands/ (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. Students with Disabilities: Better Federal Coordination Could Lessen Challenges in the Transition from High School. U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 2012.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Miller RL. Models for the Interaction of Structured Populations and the Environment. 2015.

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

Billard M. Exit Hammet, Enter Holmes. New York Times. 2010;:E5.

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