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

Meibom A. Geochemistry. The rise and fall of a great idea. Science 319: 418–419, 2008.

A journal article with 2 authors

Smaglik P, Smith A. Biotech jobs are still around despite the recent bumpy ride. Nature 418: 4–5, 2002.

A journal article with 3 authors

Jiang H, Huang N, Zhu Y. Analysis of wind-blown sand movement over transverse dunes. Sci Rep 4: 7114, 2014.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Li W, Pohl T, Rost JM, Rittenhouse ST, Sadeghpour HR, Nipper J, Butscher B, Balewski JB, Bendkowsky V, Löw R, Pfau T. A homonuclear molecule with a permanent electric dipole moment. Science 334: 1110–1114, 2011.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Carne EB. Connections for the Digital Age. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2011.

An edited book

Shahady EJ, editor. Primary Care of Musculoskeletal Problems in the Outpatient Setting. New York, NY: Springer, 2006.

A chapter in an edited book

Forriol F, San-Julian M, Cañadell† J. Location of Sarcomas Within Bone: The Growth Plate. In: Cañadell’s Pediatric Bone Sarcomas: Epiphysiolysis before Excision, edited by San-Julian M. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2016, p. 103–113.

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

Bedell-Pearce H. Mysterious 15 Meter Sea Creature Found In Indonesia [Online]. IFLScience IFLScience: 2017. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/mysterious-15-meter-sea-creature-found-in-indonesia-/ [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. [Comments on DOD Data Center Consolidation Plan]. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1994.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Mazyck BS. Leadership behavior and teacher attrition: A qualitative phenomenological inquiry of job satisfaction. University of Phoenix: 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

Vecsey G. Cosby Can Laugh Now, but Football Was Serious Business. New York Times: SP5, 2010.

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)

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