How to format your references using the European Journal of Applied Physiology citation style

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

Harwood C (2008) A microbiologist hopes to disrupt bacterial “decisions.” Nature 455:5

A journal article with 2 authors

Rice WR, Friberg U (2008) Genetics. Functionally degenerate--Y not so? Science 319:42–43

A journal article with 3 authors

Kelley AM, Michalet X, Weiss S (2001) Chemical physics. Single-molecule spectroscopy comes of age. Science 292:1671–1672

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Kimura K-I, Ote M, Tazawa T, Yamamoto D (2005) Fruitless specifies sexually dimorphic neural circuitry in the Drosophila brain. Nature 438:229–233

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Tasman A, Kay J, Ursano RJ (2013) The Psychiatric Interview. John Wiley & Sons, Oxford

An edited book

Hannula MS (2016) Attitudes, Beliefs, Motivation and Identity in Mathematics Education: An Overview of the Field and Future Directions. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Horsthemke B (2006) Epimutations in Human Disease. In: Doerfler W, Böhm P (eds) DNA Methylation: Development, Genetic Disease and Cancer. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 45–59

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 European Journal of Applied Physiology.

Blog post

Andrew D (2016) From Neptune’s Blue Hue To Jupiter’s Red Spot: Are The Colours Of The Planets Real? In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/from-neptunes-blue-hue-to-jupiters-red-spot-are-the-colours-of-the-planets-real/. Accessed 30 Oct 2018

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 (2011) Social Security Statements: Observations on SSA’s Plans for the Social Security Statement. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Dalbey SB (2017) Celebrity Endorsements and Voting Intentions: The Role of Liking and Preference for Consistency. 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

Hodgman J (2017) Bonus Advice From Judge John Hodgman. New York Times MM24

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Harwood 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Rice and Friberg 2008; Harwood 2008).

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

Two authors: (Rice and Friberg 2008)
Three or more authors: (Kimura et al. 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	European Journal of Applied Physiology
Abbreviation	Eur. J. Appl. Physiol.
ISSN (print)	1439-6319
ISSN (online)	1439-6327
Scope	Physiology Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health General Medicine Orthopedics and Sports Medicine Physiology (medical)