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

Montagnier L. 2002. Historical essay. A history of HIV discovery. Science. 298(5599):1727–28

A journal article with 2 authors

Mittermaier A, Kay LE. 2006. New tools provide new insights in NMR studies of protein dynamics. Science. 312(5771):224–28

A journal article with 3 authors

Frumkin A, Shimron A, Rosenbaum J. 2003. Radiometric dating of the Siloam Tunnel, Jerusalem. Nature. 425(6954):169–71

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Fulweiler RW, Nixon SW, Buckley BA, Granger SL. 2007. Reversal of the net dinitrogen gas flux in coastal marine sediments. Nature. 448(7150):180–82

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Pischella M, Le Ruyet D. 2015. Digital Communications 2. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Gliński J, Horabik J, Lipiec J, eds. 2011. Encyclopedia of Agrophysics. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands. 421 illus., 168 illus. in color. eReference p.

A chapter in an edited book

Coopersmith CM, Buchman TG. 2007. The Perioperative Management of the Acute Care Surgical Patient. In Acute Care Surgery: Principles and Practice, ed LD Britt, DD Trunkey, DV Feliciano, pp. 67–83. New York, NY: 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

Andrew E. 2014. Hundreds of sharks now on Twitter. 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. 2003. Information Technology: Architecture Needed to Guide NASA’s Financial Management Modernization. GAO-04-43, 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

Todman JV. 2016. Applicability of health care leadership competence and leadership behaviors for women’s achieving health care executive status. Doctoral dissertation thesis. Capella University

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

Pérez-Peña R, Schmidt MS. 2014. Woman Is Beheaded in Attack at Oklahoma Food Plant. New York Times, Sep. 27, p. A12

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