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

Field, J. K. (2014). Perspective: The screening imperative. Nature, 513(7517), S7.

A journal article with 2 authors

Page, J., & Ware, M. (2015). Perspective: Close the knowledge gap. Nature, 525(7570), S9.

A journal article with 3 authors

Melchor, R. N., De Valais, S., & Genise, J. F. (2002). Bird-like fossil footprints from the Late Triassic. Nature, 417(6892), 936–938.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Xiao, R., Miljkovic, N., Enright, R., & Wang, E. N. (2013). Immersion condensation on oil-infused heterogeneous surfaces for enhanced heat transfer. Scientific Reports, 3, 1988.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Center for Chemical Process Safety. (2013). Guidelines for Managing Process Safety Risks During Organizational Change. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Sloane, A., & Aßmann, U. (Eds.). (2012). Software Language Engineering: 4th International Conference, SLE 2011, Braga, Portugal, July 3-4, 2011, Revised Selected Papers (Vol. 6940). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Dušek, J., & Jindra, T. (2012). Measuring Biomechanics of the Vision Process, Sensory Fusion and Image Observation Features. In R. M. Natal Jorge, J. M. R. S. Tavares, M. Pinotti Barbosa, & A. P. Slade (Eds.), Technologies for Medical Sciences (pp. 87–112). Springer Netherlands.

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, February 21). Supernova Core Imaged For the First Time. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/supernova-core-imaged-first-time/

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. (1974). Need for Additional Bilingual Education Teachers and the Availability of Training Programs To Prepare Them for Classroom Service (B-164031(1)). 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

Underwood, V. L. (2010). The effect of guided reading instruction on reading achievement [Doctoral dissertation]. Lindenwood 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

Murphy, M. J. O. (2014, October 10). Weary of War and Ready to Laugh. New York Times, C32.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Field, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Field, 2014; Page & Ware, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Page & Ware, 2015)
Three authors: (Melchor et al., 2002)
6 or more authors: (Xiao et al., 2013)

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