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

Heritage J. Plant sciences. Will GM rapeseed cut the mustard? Science 302: 401–403, 2003.

A journal article with 2 authors

Rowitch DH, Kriegstein AR. Developmental genetics of vertebrate glial-cell specification. Nature 468: 214–222, 2010.

A journal article with 3 authors

Ruff CC, Ugazio G, Fehr E. Changing social norm compliance with noninvasive brain stimulation. Science 342: 482–484, 2013.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Stocker H, Andjelkovic M, Oldham S, Laffargue M, Wymann MP, Hemmings BA, Hafen E. Living with lethal PIP3 levels: viability of flies lacking PTEN restored by a PH domain mutation in Akt/PKB. Science 295: 2088–2091, 2002.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Breitmaier E. Vom NMR-Spektrum zur Strukturformel organischer Verbindungen. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, 2005.

An edited book

Maglyas A, Lamprecht A-L, editors. Software Business: 7th International Conference, ICSOB 2016, Ljubljana, Slovenia, June 13-14, 2016, Proceedings. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

Ihara M, Seko S, Miyata A, Aoki R, Ishida T, Watanabe M, Hashimoto R, Watanabe H. Towards More Practical Information Sharing in Disaster Situations. In: Human Interface and the Management of Information: Applications and Services: 18th International Conference, HCI International 2016 Toronto, Canada, July 17-22, 2016. Proceedings, Part II, edited by Yamamoto S. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2016, p. 32–39.

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

Andrew E. Why Cats Are Fussy Eaters But Dogs Will Consume Almost Anything [Online]. IFLScience IFLScience2015.https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/why-cats-are-fussy-eaters-dogs-will-consume-almost-anything/ [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. GSA: Causes of Delay in the Federal Communications Commission Move to the Portals II Building. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1998.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Johnson DA. Job satisfaction in the operating room: An analysis of the cultural competence of nurses. Capella University2008.

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

Ryerson J. University Presses. New York Times : BR27, 2017.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Heritage 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Heritage 2003; Rowitch and Kriegstein 2010).

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

Two authors: (Rowitch and Kriegstein 2010)
Three or more authors: (Stocker et al. 2002)

About the journal

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