How to format your references using the Advances in Physiology Education citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Advances in Physiology Education. 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

Anderson JB. Climate change. Ice sheet stability and sea-level rise. Science 315: 1803–1804, 2007.

A journal article with 2 authors

Jones W, Klin A. Attention to eyes is present but in decline in 2-6-month-old infants later diagnosed with autism. Nature 504: 427–431, 2013.

A journal article with 3 authors

Carbone F, Kwon O-H, Zewail AH. Dynamics of chemical bonding mapped by energy-resolved 4D electron microscopy. Science 325: 181–184, 2009.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Béguin P, Nagashima K, Gonoi T, Shibasaki T, Takahashi K, Kashima Y, Ozaki N, Geering K, Iwanaga T, Seino S. Regulation of Ca2+ channel expression at the cell surface by the small G-protein kir/Gem. Nature 411: 701–706, 2001.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Murray A. The Complete Software Project Manager. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 2015.

An edited book

Duclos J-Y. Poverty and Equity: Measurement, Policy and Estimation with DAD. Boston, MA: Springer US, 2006.

A chapter in an edited book

Claassen GDH, Hendrix EMT. On Modelling Approaches for Planning and Scheduling in Food Processing Industry. In: Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2014: 14th International Conference, Guimarães, Portugal, June 30 – July 3, 2014, Proceedings, Part II, edited by Murgante B, Misra S, Rocha AMAC, Torre C, Rocha JG, Falcão MI, Taniar D, Apduhan BO, Gervasi O. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2014, p. 47–59.

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 Advances in Physiology Education.

Blog post

Hale T. Archaeologists Think They’ve Found Captain Cook’s Ship [Online]. IFLScience IFLScience: 2016. https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/archaeologists-think-theyve-found-captain-cooks-ship/ [30 Oct. 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

Government Accountability Office. Amtrak: Acela’s Continued Problems Underscore the Importance of Meeting Broader Challenges in Managing Large-Scale Projects. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 2005.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Olch R. Low cost/no cost quality of life programs in non-profit theatre. California State University, Long Beach: 2010.

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

Greenhouse L. Justices Hear Arguments Over Whether Foreigners Have Reciprocal Rights in the U.S. New York Times: A19, 2006.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (2).
This sentence cites two references (2, 4).
This sentence cites four references (2, 4, 6, 8).

About the journal

Full journal title	Advances in Physiology Education
Abbreviation	Adv. Physiol. Educ.
ISSN (print)	1043-4046
ISSN (online)	1522-1229
Scope	Physiology General Medicine