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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for 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

Wisdom J. Swimming in spacetime: motion by cyclic changes in body shape. Science 299: 1865–1869, 2003.

A journal article with 2 authors

Bellows DS, Tyers M. Cell biology. Chemical genetics hits. Science 306: 67–68, 2004.

A journal article with 3 authors

Fonseca PJ, Münch D, Hennig RM. How cicadas interpret acoustic signals. Nature 405: 297–298, 2000.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Zuend SJ, Coughlin MP, Lalonde MP, Jacobsen EN. Scaleable catalytic asymmetric Strecker syntheses of unnatural alpha-amino acids. Nature 461: 968–970, 2009.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Singleton TW, Singleton AJ. Fraud Auditing and Forensic Accounting. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2010.

An edited book

Mao J, Bierlein FP, editors. Mineral Deposit Research: Meeting the Global Challenge: Proceedings of the Eighth Biennial SGA Meeting Beijing, China, 18–21 August 2005. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

Held H. Dealing with Uncertainty – From Climate Research to Integrated Assessment of Policy Options. In: Climate Change and Policy: The Calculability of Climate Change and the Challenge of Uncertainty, edited by Gramelsberger G, Feichter J. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2011, p. 113–126.

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 Journal of Applied Physiology.

Blog post

Carpineti A. Now Everyone Can Help Astronomers Hunt Down Supernovae. IFLScience IFLScience: 2017.

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. Identification of NASA Research and Development Programs Subject to Benefit-Cost Analysis. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1972.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Horning CL. Kinesthetic learning in algebra and its effects on students’ achievement and disposition toward mathemathics. California State University, Long Beach: 2017.

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

Greenhouse L. New Jersey and Delaware Take Long-Brewing Boundary Fight to Supreme Court. New York Times: B4, 2007.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (2).
This sentence cites two references (2, 4).
This sentence cites four references (2, 4, 6, 8).

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Applied Physiology
Abbreviation	J. Appl. Physiol.
ISSN (print)	8750-7587
ISSN (online)	1522-1601
Scope	Physiology Physiology (medical)

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