How to format your references using the Journal of Physical Therapy Science citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Physical Therapy Science. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

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Pasquinelli AE: Molecular biology. Paring miRNAs through pairing. Science, 2010, 328: 1494–1495.

A journal article with 2 authors

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Verhulst S, Tinbergen JM: Variation in food supply, time of breeding, and energy expenditure in birds. Science, 2001, 294: 471.

A journal article with 3 authors

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Nabel GJ, Wei C-J, Ledgerwood JE: Vaccinate for the next H2N2 pandemic now. Nature, 2011, 471: 157–158.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

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Chakraborty T, Srinivasan S, Ganguly N, et al.: Constant communities in complex networks. Sci Rep, 2013, 3: 1825.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

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Belsey C: A Future for Criticism, Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011.

An edited book

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Robotics and Mechatronics: Proceedings of the 4th IFToMM International Symposium on Robotics and Mechatronics, Mechanisms and Machine Science, 1st ed. 2016. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2016, p X, 322 p. 182 illus.

A chapter in an edited book

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Mo W, Guan S-U, Puthusserypady SK: A Novel Hybrid Algorithm for Function Optimization: Particle Swarm Assisted Incremental Evolution Strategy, Studies in Computational Intelligence. In: Abraham A, Grosan C, Ishibuchi H (eds.)In: Hybrid Evolutionary Algorithms. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2007, p 101–125.

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 Physical Therapy Science.

Blog post

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Fluorescent Proteins Light Up Science By Making The Invisible Visible. https://www.iflscience.com/chemistry/fluorescent-proteins-light-science-making-invisible-visible/ (Accessed Oct. 30, 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

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Government Accountability Office: Transportation Security Research: Coordination Needed in Selecting and Implementing Infrastructure Vulnerability Assessments, Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 2003.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

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Eyers BM: An Analysis of Remote Biometric Authentication with Windows (Doctoral dissertation), Tampa, FL: University of South Florida, 2011.

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

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Kenigsberg B: Review: ‘Mifune: The Last Samurai’ Celebrates a Fearless Actor. New York Times, 2016, C8.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference ¹⁾.
This sentence cites two references ^{1, 2)}.
This sentence cites four references ^1–4).

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Physical Therapy Science
Abbreviation	J. Phys. Ther. Sci.
ISSN (print)	0915-5287
ISSN (online)	2187-5626
Scope	Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation