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

Connor CE. Neuroscience. A new viewpoint on faces. Science 330: 764–765, 2010.

A journal article with 2 authors

Woolhouse MEJ, Ward MJ. Microbiology. Sources of antimicrobial resistance. Science 341: 1460–1461, 2013.

A journal article with 3 authors

Dubilier N, McFall-Ngai M, Zhao L. Microbiology: Create a global microbiome effort. Nature 526: 631–634, 2015.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Fan H, Lu Y, Stump A, Reed ST, Baer T, Schunk R, Perez-Luna V V, Lopez GP, Brinker CJ. Rapid prototyping of patterned functional nanostructures. Nature 405: 56–60, 2000.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Utsuro M, Ignatovich VK. Handbook of Neutron Optics. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, 2010.

An edited book

Billinton R, Karki R, Verma AK, editors. Reliability and Risk Evaluation of Wind Integrated Power Systems. New Delhi: Springer India, 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

Niss M. Modeling a Crucial Aspect of Students’ Mathematical Modeling. In: Modeling Students’ Mathematical Modeling Competencies: ICTMA 13, edited by Lesh R, Galbraith PL, Haines CR, Hurford A. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2013, p. 43–59.

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

Andrew E. The Comet That Outgrew The Sun [Online]. IFLScience IFLScience: 2014. https://www.iflscience.com/space/comet-outgrew-sun/ [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. Information Technology: Federal Agencies Need to Strengthen Investment Board Oversight of Poorly Planned and Performing Projects. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 2009.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Viruet HB. Effect of Forklift Operation on Lower Back Pain: An Evidence-Based Approach. University of Cincinnati: 2006.

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

(nyt) SK. World Briefing | Europe: Russia: Arson Suspected In Synagogue Fire. New York Times: A9, 2005.

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)