How to format your references using the American Journal of Physiology - Lung Cellular and Molecular Physiology citation style

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

Moreno E. Cancer: Darwinian tumour suppression. Nature 509: 435–436, 2014.

A journal article with 2 authors

Palmer MA, Filoso S. Restoration of ecosystem services for environmental markets. Science 325: 575–576, 2009.

A journal article with 3 authors

Malakoff D, Yeston J, Smith J. Getting better to get bigger. Science 329: 779, 2010.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Pouchkina-Stantcheva NN, McGee BM, Boschetti C, Tolleter D, Chakrabortee S, Popova AV, Meersman F, Macherel D, Hincha DK, Tunnacliffe A. Functional divergence of former alleles in an ancient asexual invertebrate. Science 318: 268–271, 2007.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ryan TP. Modern Engineering Statistics. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2007.

An edited book

Mucherino A. Data Mining in Agriculture. New York, NY: Springer, 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

Emery X, Gálvez I. A Plurigaussian Model for Simulating Regionalized Compositions. In: Geostatistics Oslo 2012, edited by Abrahamsen P, Hauge R, Kolbjørnsen O. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2012, p. 39–50.

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 American Journal of Physiology - Lung Cellular and Molecular Physiology.

Blog post

Fang J. Stunning Flythrough Views of Intact Brains [Online]. IFLScience IFLScience: 2014. https://www.iflscience.com/brain/stunning-flythrough-views-intact-brains/ [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. Customs and INS: Information on Inspection, Infrastructure, Traffic Flow, and Security Matters at the Detroit Port of Entry. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 2002.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Gonzales M. Examining institutional career preparation: Student perceptions of their workplace readiness and the role of the university in student career development. Pepperdine University: 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

Davis JH. A Complex Relationship Has an Abrupt Ending. New York Times: A20, 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 - Lung Cellular and Molecular Physiology
Abbreviation	Am. J. Physiol. Lung Cell. Mol. Physiol.
ISSN (print)	1040-0605
ISSN (online)	1522-1504
Scope	Cell Biology Physiology Physiology (medical) Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine