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

Wilczek F. Physics: The enigmatic electron. Nature 498: 31–32, 2013.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kim E, Chan MHW. Observation of superflow in solid helium. Science 305: 1941–1944, 2004.

A journal article with 3 authors

Culley AI, Lang AS, Suttle CA. High diversity of unknown picorna-like viruses in the sea. Nature 424: 1054–1057, 2003.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Lawler MJ, Fujita K, Lee J, Schmidt AR, Kohsaka Y, Kim CK, Eisaki H, Uchida S, Davis JC, Sethna JP, Kim E-A. Intra-unit-cell electronic nematicity of the high-T(c) copper-oxide pseudogap states. Nature 466: 347–351, 2010.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Gleeson K. The Personal Efficiency Program. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2008.

An edited book

Fulekar MH, editor. Bioinformatics: Applications in Life and Environmental Sciences. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

da Silva VA. Youth “Settled” by Mobility: Ethnography of a Portuguese Village. In: Translocal Ruralism: Mobility and Connectivity in European Rural Spaces, edited by Hedberg C, do Carmo RM. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2012, p. 73–86.

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. Rare Footage Captures A Sleepy Whale Waking Up From A Nap [Online]. IFLScience IFLScience: 2014. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/rare-footage-captures-sleepy-whale-waking-nap/ [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. Identification of NASA Research and Development Programs Subject to Benefit-Cost Analysis. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1972.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Ethridge G. Determining the variables that contribute to job tenure for people with psychiatric disabilities participating in an evidenced-based supported employment program. University of Maryland, College Park: 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

Crow K. The Bunker, an Orphan, Finds a Temporary Home. New York Times: 144, 2002.

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