How to format your references using the Canadian Journal of Physiology and Pharmacology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Canadian Journal of Physiology and Pharmacology. 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

Yoder, A. D. (2013). Evolution. Fossils versus clocks. Science (New York, N.Y.), 339(6120), 656–658.

A journal article with 2 authors

Jacob, Z., & Shalaev, V. M. (2011). Physics. Plasmonics goes quantum. Science (New York, N.Y.), 334(6055), 463–464.

A journal article with 3 authors

Biankin, A. V., Piantadosi, S., & Hollingsworth, S. J. (2015). Patient-centric trials for therapeutic development in precision oncology. Nature, 526(7573), 361–370.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Zrenner, A., Beham, E., Stufler, S., Findeis, F., Bichler, M., & Abstreiter, G. (2002). Coherent properties of a two-level system based on a quantum-dot photodiode. Nature, 418(6898), 612–614.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ytterdal, T., Cheng, Y., & Fjeldly, T. A. (2003). Device Modeling for Analog and RF CMOS Circuit Design. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Griebel, M., & Schweitzer, M. A. (Eds.). (2013). Meshfree Methods for Partial Differential Equations VI (Vol. 89). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Huaypar, Y., Bravo, J., Gutarra, A., & Gabriel, E. (2009). Study of the structural modifications in activated clays by Mössbauer spectroscopy and X-ray diffractometry. In C. Larica, R. C. Mercader, C. Partiti, & J. R. Gancedo (Eds.), LACAME 2006: Proceedings of the 10th Latin American Conference on the Applications of the Mössbauer Effect (LACAME 2006) held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 5–9 November 2006 (pp. 23–28). 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 Canadian Journal of Physiology and Pharmacology.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2014, June 23). Mysterious Bright Object Spotted On Titan. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/mysterious-bright-object-spotted-titan/

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. (1994). FAA Technical Training (RCED-94-296R). U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Bryan, D. (2015). Facilitators or impediments to college readiness [Doctoral dissertation]. 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

Kershner, I., & Hubbard, B. (2016, December 21). Hezbollah Is Using U.S.-Made Armor in Syria, Israel Says. New York Times, A14.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Yoder, 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Jacob & Shalaev, 2011; Yoder, 2013).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Jacob & Shalaev, 2011)
Three or more authors: (Zrenner et al., 2002)

About the journal

Full journal title	Canadian Journal of Physiology and Pharmacology
Abbreviation	Can. J. Physiol. Pharmacol.
ISSN (print)	0008-4212
ISSN (online)	1205-7541
Scope	Physiology General Medicine Physiology (medical) Pharmacology