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

Catterall, W. A. (2001). Physiology. A one-domain voltage-gated sodium channel in bacteria. Science (New York, N.Y.), 294(5550), 2306–2308.

A journal article with 2 authors

Frank, T., & Friedrich, R. W. (2015). Neurobiology: Individuality sniffed out in flies. Nature, 526(7572), 200–201.

A journal article with 3 authors

Sousa, T., Marques, G. M., & Domingos, T. (2009). Comment on “Energy uptake and allocation during ontogeny.” Science (New York, N.Y.), 325(5945), 1206; author reply 1206.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Westneat, M. W., Betz, O., Blob, R. W., Fezzaa, K., Cooper, W. J., & Lee, W.-K. (2003). Tracheal respiration in insects visualized with synchrotron x-ray imaging. Science (New York, N.Y.), 299(5606), 558–560.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Das, J. C. (2015). Power System Harmonics and Passive Filter Designs. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Lundström, A., Zhou, C., von Friedrichs, Y., & Sundin, E. (Eds.). (2014). Social Entrepreneurship: Leveraging Economic, Political, and Cultural Dimensions (Vol. 29). Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Kaushik, A. (2014). India, OPEC, and an Agenda for Energy Security. In S. Mathur (Ed.), Trade, the WTO and Energy Security: Mapping the Linkages for India (pp. 147–182). Springer India.

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

O`Callaghan, J. (2015, September 25). Hands On With Bloodhound: The 1,000 mph Car That Will Smash The Land Speed Record. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/hands-bloodhound-1000-mph-car-will-smash-world-land-speed-record-edited-kh/

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. (1976). Analysis of Replacing Existing DOA Computer System (LCD-77-101). 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

McCarroll, M. L. (2005). Exercise and Airway Clearing Devices in Pulmonary Rehabilitation Programs for Patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease [Doctoral dissertation]. Ohio State 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

de la MERCED, M. J. (2017, June 27). Nestlé Plans for Buybacks And, Perhaps, Acquisitions. New York Times, B4.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Catterall, 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Catterall, 2001; Frank & Friedrich, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Frank & Friedrich, 2015)
Three authors: (Sousa et al., 2009)
6 or more authors: (Westneat et al., 2003)

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