How to format your references using the Journal of Neurophysiology citation style

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

Bowie JU. Solving the membrane protein folding problem. Nature 438: 581–589, 2005.

A journal article with 2 authors

Anderson BL, Winawer J. Image segmentation and lightness perception. Nature 434: 79–83, 2005.

A journal article with 3 authors

Devine JA, Baker KD, Haedrich RL. Fisheries: deep-sea fishes qualify as endangered. Nature 439: 29, 2006.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Tateishi K, Okada Y, Kallin EM, Zhang Y. Role of Jhdm2a in regulating metabolic gene expression and obesity resistance. Nature 458: 757–761, 2009.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Sarker DK. Pharmaceutical Emulsions. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2013.

An edited book

Lin C. Mixed-Signal Layout Generation Concepts. Boston, MA: Springer US, 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

Magarelli N, Carducci C, Dell’Atti C. Imaging of the Shoulder. In: Shoulder Arthroscopy: Principles and Practice, edited by Milano G, Grasso A. London: Springer, 2014, p. 45–57.

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 Neurophysiology.

Blog post

Fang J. Wolves Cooperate With Each Other, Dogs Form Hierarchies [Online]. IFLScience IFLScience2014.https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/wolves-cooperate-each-other-dogs-form-hierarchies/ [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. U.S. Must Spend More To Maintain Lead in Space Technology. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1980.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Grijalva JA. Exploring cultural finance: A phenomenological approach to comparative cultural perceptions of money in Mexico. Northcentral University2010.

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

Greenspan D. It’s All in the Hands. New York Times : MM28, 2017.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Bowie 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Anderson and Winawer 2005; Bowie 2005).

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

Two authors: (Anderson and Winawer 2005)
Three or more authors: (Tateishi et al. 2009)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Neurophysiology
Abbreviation	J. Neurophysiol.
ISSN (print)	0022-3077
ISSN (online)	1522-1598
Scope	Physiology General Neuroscience