How to format your references using the American Journal of Physiology - Regulatory, Integrative, and Comparative Physiology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for American Journal of Physiology - Regulatory, Integrative, and Comparative 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

Clarke J. Paleontology. Feathers before flight. Science 340: 690–692, 2013.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hwang I, Sheen J. Two-component circuitry in Arabidopsis cytokinin signal transduction. Nature 413: 383–389, 2001.

A journal article with 3 authors

Chen Y, Peng R, You Z. APPLIED ORIGAMI. Origami of thick panels. Science 349: 396–400, 2015.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Shoji M, Sato K, Yukitake H, Naito M, Nakayama K. Involvement of the Wbp pathway in the biosynthesis of Porphyromonas gingivalis lipopolysaccharide with anionic polysaccharide. Sci Rep 4: 5056, 2014.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hellesland J, Challamel N, Casandjian C, Lanos C. Reinforced Concrete Beams, Columns and Frames. Hoboken, NJ USA: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2013.

An edited book

Levitin G, editor. Computational Intelligence in Reliability Engineering: New Metaheuristics, Neural and Fuzzy Techniques in Reliability. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2007.

A chapter in an edited book

Paré A. Speaking of Writing: Supervisory Feedback and the Dissertation. In: Doctoral Education: Research-Based Strategies for Doctoral Students, Supervisors and Administrators, edited by McAlpine L, Amundsen C. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2011, p. 59–74.

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 - Regulatory, Integrative, and Comparative Physiology.

Blog post

Carpineti A. A Giant Ringed Planet Is Likely The Cause Of Mysterious Eclipses [Online]. IFLScience IFLScience: 2017. https://www.iflscience.com/space/a-giant-ringed-planet-is-likely-the-cause-of-mysterious-eclipses/ [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. Implementation of OMB Circular No. A-76 at Science Agencies. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 2007.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Dickens KR. Factors influencing teacher job satisfaction and their alignment with current district practices in a suburban school district. Lindenwood University: 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

Loomis G. Baroque Opera at the Ambronay Festival. New York Times: 0, 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 - Regulatory, Integrative, and Comparative Physiology
Abbreviation	Am. J. Physiol. Regul. Integr. Comp. Physiol.
ISSN (print)	0363-6119
ISSN (online)	1522-1490
Scope	Physiology Physiology (medical)