How to format your references using the Journal of Physiological Anthropology citation style

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

PaperpileThe citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNoteFind the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and othersThe style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeXBibTeX 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
1. Keppler H. Geology: Earth’s deep water reservoir. Nature. 2014;507:174–5.
A journal article with 2 authors
1. Dove W, Susman M. Retrospective. James F. Crow (1916-2012). Science. 2012;335:812.
A journal article with 3 authors
1. Long SB, Campbell EB, Mackinnon R. Voltage sensor of Kv1.2: structural basis of electromechanical coupling. Science. 2005;309:903–8.
A journal article with 7 or more authors
1. Hallett TB, Coulson T, Pilkington JG, Clutton-Brock TH, Pemberton JM, Grenfell BT. Why large-scale climate indices seem to predict ecological processes better than local weather. Nature. 2004;430:71–5.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
1. Parker JS, Anderson RL. Low-Energy Lunar Trajectory Design. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2014.
An edited book
1. Long S, Dhillon BS, editors. Man-Machine-Environment System Engineering: Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on MMESE. Singapore: Springer; 2016.
A chapter in an edited book
1. Brennan J. Reform and Transformation Following Regime Change. In: Bleiklie I, Henkel M, editors. Governing Knowledge: A Study of Continuity and Change in Higher Education A Festschrift in Honour of Maurice Kogan. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2005. p. 49–63.

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 Physiological Anthropology.

Blog post
1. Andrew E. How Nigeria Beat The Ebola Virus In Three Months. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015.

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
1. Government Accountability Office. Research and Development: Lessons Learned from Previous Research Could Benefit FreedomCAR Initiative. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2002 Jun. Report No.: GAO-02-810T.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation
1. Johnson L. The Relationship between Mock Jurors’ Locus of Control, Belief in a Just World, and an NGRI Verdict [Doctoral dissertation]. [Edwardsville, IL]: Southern Illinois University; 2017.

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
1. Sisario B. Lamar Debuts at No. 1. New York Times. 2017 Apr 24;C3.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

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 titleJournal of Physiological Anthropology
AbbreviationJ. Physiol. Anthropol.
ISSN (online)1880-6805
ScopePhysiology
Orthopedics and Sports Medicine
Physiology (medical)
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
Human Factors and Ergonomics
Anthropology

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