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

Prather MJ. Atmospheric science. An environmental experiment with H2? Science 302: 581–582, 2003.

A journal article with 2 authors

Zhang L, Doudna JA. Structural insights into group II intron catalysis and branch-site selection. Science 295: 2084–2088, 2002.

A journal article with 3 authors

Mora C, Danovaro R, Loreau M. Alternative hypotheses to explain why biodiversity-ecosystem functioning relationships are concave-up in some natural ecosystems but concave-down in manipulative experiments. Sci Rep 4: 5427, 2014.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Lyapina S, Cope G, Shevchenko A, Serino G, Tsuge T, Zhou C, Wolf DA, Wei N, Shevchenko A, Deshaies RJ. Promotion of NEDD-CUL1 conjugate cleavage by COP9 signalosome. Science 292: 1382–1385, 2001.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Franssen J-M, Vila Real P. Fire Design of Steel Structures. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, 2016.

An edited book

Agrawal A, Britz G, editors. Pediatric Vascular Neurosurgery: Principles and Practice of Neurovascular Disorders (Part 1). Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

Nakamura T. How to Recover Minor Rare Metals from E-Scrap. In: Rare Metal Technology 2015, edited by Neelameggham NR, Alam S, Oosterhof H, Jha A, Dreisinger D, Wang S. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2016, p. 37–44.

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

O`Callaghan J. Astronomers Have Discovered The Smallest Asteroid We Know Of, And It’s Only Slightly Bigger Than A Person [Online]. IFLScience IFLScience: 2016. https://www.iflscience.com/space/astronomers-have-discovered-the-smallest-asteroid-we-know-of-and-its-only-slightly-bigger-than-a-person/ [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. Aviation Safety: Procedures for Registering and Certifying Air Carriers. 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

Ware RJ. Middle School Students’ Perceptions of Their Interests in Reading As Defined By Engagement and Social Interaction When Using Sustained Silent Reading, SSR, and Peer Interests Reading Strategies, PIRS. Lindenwood University: 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

Kelly C. Reshooting J. R., This Time on Home Territory. New York Times: A22A, 2012.

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

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