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

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

Tranvik L (2014) Biogeochemistry. Carbon cycling in the Arctic. Science 345:870

A journal article with 2 authors

Doudna JA, Cech TR (2002) The chemical repertoire of natural ribozymes. Nature 418:222–228

A journal article with 3 authors

Cacace F, de Petris G, Troiani A (2002) Experimental detection of tetranitrogen. Science 295:480–481

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Pascual A, Huang K-L, Neveu J, Préat T (2004) Neuroanatomy: brain asymmetry and long-term memory. Nature 427:605–606

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Baker WL, Marn MV, Zawada CC (2010) The Price Advantage. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Timmer S, Urquiza A (eds) (2014) Evidence-Based Approaches for the Treatment of Maltreated Children: Considering core components and treatment effectiveness. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht

A chapter in an edited book

Caracas R (2013) First-Principles Calculations of Physical Properties of Planetary Ices. In: Gudipati MS, Castillo-Rogez J (eds) The Science of Solar System Ices. Springer, New York, NY, pp 149–169

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 Comparative Physiology B.

Blog post

Andrew E (2014) Scientists Get First Look Inside Mysterious Siberian Crater. In: IFLScience. 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 (2016) Vehicle Safety: Enhanced Project Management of New Information Technology Could Help Improve NHTSA’s Oversight of Safety Defects. 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

Gallegos LL (2009) Spatiotemporal regulation of protein kinase C signaling: Control of normal cellular dynamics and mis-regulation in cancer. Doctoral dissertation, University of California San Diego

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

Koblin J (2016) Rare Netflix Cancellation: Costly ‘Marco Polo’ Is Done. New York Times B2

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Tranvik 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Doudna and Cech 2002; Tranvik 2014).

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

Two authors: (Doudna and Cech 2002)
Three or more authors: (Pascual et al. 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Comparative Physiology B
Abbreviation	J. Comp. Physiol. B
ISSN (print)	0174-1578
ISSN (online)	1432-136X
Scope	Animal Science and Zoology Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics Biochemistry Endocrinology Physiology