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

Grünbaum D. Behavior. Align in the sand. Science. 2006;312(5778):1320-1322.

A journal article with 2 authors

Chen MS, Goodman DW. The structure of catalytically active gold on titania. Science. 2004;306(5694):252-255.

A journal article with 3 authors

Schmith T, Johansen S, Thejll P. Comment on “A semi-empirical approach to projecting future sea-level rise.” Science. 2007;317(5846):1866; author reply 1866.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Pende M, Kozma SC, Jaquet M, et al. Hypoinsulinaemia, glucose intolerance and diminished beta-cell size in S6K1-deficient mice. Nature. 2000;408(6815):994-997.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Robbins NB. Creating More Effective Graphs. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2004.

An edited book

Agarwal A, Gupta S, Sharma R, eds. Andrological Evaluation of Male Infertility: A Laboratory Guide. Springer International Publishing; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

Edge CS, Barker C, Schwiebert E. Managing Directory Services. In: Barker C, Schwiebert E, eds. Beginning Mac OS X Snow Leopard Server: From Solo Install to Enterprise Integration. Apress; 2010:101-148.

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

Fang J. Neurons and a Nerve Discovered in the Sex Organs of Male Spiders. IFLScience. Published July 8, 2015. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/neurons-and-nerve-discovered-sex-organ-male-spiders/

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. Land Management Systems: Major Software Development Does Not Meet BLM’s Business Needs. U.S. Government Printing Office; 1999.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Nunez FV. A Study of the Application of the Concepts of Karen Horney in Leadership Development within the National Management Association of the Boeing Company. Doctoral dissertation. Pepperdine University; 2010.

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

Schmidt S. In City Rich in History, Unusual Plan to Preserve Poet’s Home. New York Times. September 16, 2016:A24.

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

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