How to format your references using the Brazilian Journal of Physical Therapy citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Brazilian Journal of Physical Therapy. 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

Piwowar H. Altmetrics: Value all research products. Nature. 2013;493(7431):159.

A journal article with 2 authors

Nuttall I, Dye C. Epidemiology. The SARS wake-up call. Science. 2013;339(6125):1287-1288.

A journal article with 3 authors

Conrad CP, Steinberger B, Torsvik TH. Stability of active mantle upwelling revealed by net characteristics of plate tectonics. Nature. 2013;498(7455):479-482.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Stickley CE, St John K, Koç N, et al. Evidence for middle Eocene Arctic sea ice from diatoms and ice-rafted debris. Nature. 2009;460(7253):376-379.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Sarker SD, Nahar L. Chemistry for Pharmacy Students. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd,.; 2007.

An edited book

Hauschild W. High-Voltage Test and Measuring Techniques. (Lemke E, ed.). Springer; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

Tönnies S, Balke WT. Uncovering Hidden Qualities – Benefits of Quality Measures for Automatically Generated Metadata. In: Lalmas M, Jose J, Rauber A, Sebastiani F, Frommholz I, eds. Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries: 14th European Conference, ECDL 2010, Glasgow, UK, September 6-10, 2010. Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer; 2010:30-37.

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 Brazilian Journal of Physical Therapy.

Blog post

Andrews R. Researchers Can Now 3D Print A Human Heart Using Biological Material. IFLScience. October 26, 2015. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/human-heart-can-now-be-3d-printed-using-biological-material/

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. Intercity Passenger Rail: Decisions on the Future of Amtrak and Intercity Passenger Rail Are Approaching. U.S. Government Printing Office; 2000.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Julfayan-Gregorian V. Success Strategies of First-Generation Foreign-Born Leaders. Doctoral dissertation. Pepperdine University; 2017.

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

Jones IB. Article 8 -- No Title. New York Times. February 14, 1903:The New York Times SATURDAY REVIEW OF BOOKS AND ARTBR10.

In-text citations

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

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	Brazilian Journal of Physical Therapy
ISSN (print)	1413-3555
Scope