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

Triplett W. Astronomers silenced in star-name wars. Nature 406: 448, 2000.

A journal article with 2 authors

Skubi KL, Yoon TP. Organic chemistry: Shape control in reactions with light. Nature 515: 45–46, 2014.

A journal article with 3 authors

Li YC, Cheng TH, Gartenberg MR. Establishment of transcriptional silencing in the absence of DNA replication. Science 291: 650–653, 2001.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Chaisan K, Smith JT, Bossew P, Kirchner G, Laptev GV. Worldwide isotope ratios of the Fukushima release and early-phase external dose reconstruction. Sci Rep 3: 2520, 2013.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Twomey B. Inside the Currency Market. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2011.

An edited book

Nurminsky D, editor. Selective Sweep. Boston, MA: Springer US, 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

Xin X, Liu Y. Remotely Driven Acrobot. In: Control Design and Analysis for Underactuated Robotic Systems, edited by Liu Y. London: Springer, 2014, p. 71–93.

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

Taub B. Global Ecosystems At Risk Of Failing As Biodiversity Falls Below Safety Limit, Scientists Warn [Online]. IFLScience IFLScience2016.https://www.iflscience.com/environment/global-ecosystems-at-risk-of-failing-as-biodiversity-falls-below-safety-limit-scientists-warn/ [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. Transportation Security: Additional Actions Could Strengthen the Security of Intermodal Transportation Facilities. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 2010.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Mizokami SK. Fall risk factors among cane and walker users and non-users. California State University, Long Beach2015.

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

Kovaleski SF. Comic Says<br />His Story <br />About 9/11<br />Was a Lie. New York Times : C1, 2015.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Triplett 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Skubi and Yoon 2014; Triplett 2000).

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

Two authors: (Skubi and Yoon 2014)
Three or more authors: (Chaisan et al. 2013)

About the journal

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