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

Watson A. EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY: New Science Chief Must Juggle Missions and Politics. Science 290: 1287a–8a, 2000.

A journal article with 2 authors

Cowen LE, Lindquist S. Hsp90 potentiates the rapid evolution of new traits: drug resistance in diverse fungi. Science 309: 2185–2189, 2005.

A journal article with 3 authors

López CA, de Vries AH, Marrink SJ. Computational microscopy of cyclodextrin mediated cholesterol extraction from lipid model membranes. Sci Rep 3: 2071, 2013.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Yamada K, Ji JJ, Yuan H, Miki T, Sato S, Horimoto N, Shimizu T, Seino S, Inagaki N. Protective role of ATP-sensitive potassium channels in hypoxia-induced generalized seizure. Science 292: 1543–1546, 2001.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ratzliff A, Unutzer J, Katon W, Stephens KA. Integrated Care. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 2015.

An edited book

Grigoriev YN. Symmetries of Integro-Differential Equations: With Applications in Mechanics and Plasma Physics. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

Woods RJ, McCarthy MC. Abnormal Bleeding and Coagulopathies. In: General Surgery, edited by Bland KI, Büchler MW, Csendes A, Sarr MG, Garden OJ, Wong J. London: Springer, 2009, p. 37–42.

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. Can Wormholes Fix A Major Problem With Black Holes? [Online]. IFLScience IFLScience: 2016. https://www.iflscience.com/physics/can-wormholes-fix-a-major-problem-with-black-holes/ [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. Federal Agencies’ Maintenance of Computer Programs: Expensive and Undermanaged. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1981.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

ELBoushi TC. Evaluating ethics training and the outcome on leadership decision making: A phenomenological study. University of Phoenix: 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

Blinder A. Dead Children, a Crumpled Bus and a Dazed City. New York Times: A12, 2016.

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)