How to format your references using the American Journal of Physiology - Renal Physiology citation style

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

Wheeler AR. Chemistry. Putting electrowetting to work. Science 322: 539–540, 2008.

A journal article with 2 authors

Nuttall I, Dye C. Epidemiology. The SARS wake-up call. Science 339: 1287–1288, 2013.

A journal article with 3 authors

Childs AM, Gosset D, Webb Z. Universal computation by multiparticle quantum walk. Science 339: 791–794, 2013.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

d’Adda di Fagagna F, Reaper PM, Clay-Farrace L, Fiegler H, Carr P, Von Zglinicki T, Saretzki G, Carter NP, Jackson SP. A DNA damage checkpoint response in telomere-initiated senescence. Nature 426: 194–198, 2003.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Mohanty S, Ghosh R. Planning a Scientific Career in Industry. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2010.

An edited book

Quirk S. Deep-Sky Video Astronomy. New York, NY: Springer, 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

Southgate RD, Kates SL. The Geriatric Patient. In: Management of Musculoskeletal Injuries in the Trauma Patient, edited by Smith WR, Stahel PF. New York, NY: Springer, 2014, p. 85–110.

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 - Renal Physiology.

Blog post

Andrew E. Coffee Might Help You Live Longer [Online]. IFLScience IFLScience: 2015. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/coffee-even-decaf-might-help-you-live-longer/ [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. Civil Agencies Information Systems Issue Area: Active Assignments. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1998.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Mc Adams AN. School psychologists’ perceptions of procedural fidelity in special education. California State University, Long Beach: 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

Sisario B. Bob Dylan’s Next Act: An Album of Standards. New York Times: C2, 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 - Renal Physiology
Abbreviation	Am. J. Physiol. Renal Physiol.
ISSN (print)	1931-857X
ISSN (online)	1522-1466
Scope	Physiology

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