How to format your references using the American Journal of Physiology - Cell Physiology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for American Journal of Physiology - Cell Physiology. 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 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

Nowak MA. Generosity: A winner’s advice. Nature 456: 579, 2008.

A journal article with 2 authors

Nadeau RM, Guilhem A. Nonvolcanic tremor evolution and the San Simeon and Parkfield, California, earthquakes. Science 325: 191–193, 2009.

A journal article with 3 authors

Norris DJ, Efros AL, Erwin SC. Doped nanocrystals. Science 319: 1776–1779, 2008.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Cardinale CJ, Washburn RS, Tadigotla VR, Brown LM, Gottesman ME, Nudler E. Termination factor Rho and its cofactors NusA and NusG silence foreign DNA in E. coli. Science 320: 935–938, 2008.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Lane MJ. The Mission-Driven Venture. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 2015.

An edited book

Luo X, Yu JX, Li Z, editors. Advanced Data Mining and Applications: 10th International Conference, ADMA 2014, Guilin, China, December 19-21, 2014. Proceedings. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

Gratton E, vandeVen MJ. Laser Sources for Confocal Microscopy. In: Handbook Of Biological Confocal Microscopy, edited by Pawley JB. Boston, MA: Springer US, 2006, p. 80–125.

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 American Journal of Physiology - Cell Physiology.

Blog post

Andrew E. Giant Clams Could Inspire Better Solar Panels [Online]. IFLScience IFLScience: 2014. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/giant-clams-could-inspire-better-solar-panels/ [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. Weather Satellites: Economies Available by Converging Government Meteorological Satellites. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1987.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

McDuffie CA. Melodies of intervention: Music therapy for transitional-age youth: A grant proposal. California State University, Long Beach: 2017.

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

Stephens J. Secrets of the Metropolis. New York Times: BR21, 2017.

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	American Journal of Physiology - Cell Physiology
Abbreviation	Am. J. Physiol. Cell Physiol.
ISSN (print)	0363-6143
ISSN (online)	1522-1563
Scope	Cell Biology Physiology