How to format your references using the Annual Review of Physiology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Annual Review of 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	Download the output style file
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

Allen GE. 2001. Essays on science and society. Is a new eugenics afoot? Science. 294(5540):59–61

A journal article with 2 authors

Ricardo S, Lehmann R. 2009. An ABC transporter controls export of a Drosophila germ cell attractant. Science. 323(5916):943–46

A journal article with 3 authors

Grbic A, Jiang L, Merlin R. 2008. Near-field plates: subdiffraction focusing with patterned surfaces. Science. 320(5875):511–13

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Gergs A, Zenker A, Grimm V, Preuss TG. 2013. Chemical and natural stressors combined: from cryptic effects to population extinction. Sci. Rep. 3:2036

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Spence R. 2008. Introductory Circuits. Chichester, West Sussex: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Washio T, Zhou Z-H, Huang JZ, Hu X, Li J, et al., eds. 2007. Emerging Technologies in Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining: PAKDD 2007 International Workshops Nanjing, China, May 22-25, 2007 Revised Selected Papers, Vol. 4819. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer. XIV, 678 p p.

A chapter in an edited book

Ito H, Koshimizu H. 2011. Face Image Annotation and Retrieval in Impressive Words Using Minimum Bounding Rectangles of Face Parts. In Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems: 15th International Conference, KES 2011, Kaiserslautern, Germany, September 12-14, 2011, Proceedings, Part IV, ed A König, A Dengel, K Hinkelmann, K Kise, RJ Howlett, LC Jain, pp. 34–43. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer

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 Annual Review of Physiology.

Blog post

O`Callaghan J. 2015. NASA Turns Black Hole Telescope Onto the Sun To Capture X-rays From Microflares. IFLScience. www.iflscience.com

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. 1997. FCC: Non-Voice, Non-Geostationary Mobile Satellite Service. OGC-98-11, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Motala S. 2009. Siblings caring for elderly parents with dementia. Doctoral dissertation thesis. California State University, Long Beach

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

Weaver MA. 2015. Why Do They Go? New York Times, April 14, p. MM42

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (1).
This sentence cites two references (1, 2).
This sentence cites four references (1–4).

About the journal

Full journal title	Annual Review of Physiology
Abbreviation	Annu. Rev. Physiol.
ISSN (print)	0066-4278
ISSN (online)	1545-1585
Scope	Physiology