How to format your references using the Journal of Physiology and Biochemistry citation style

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

Rochelle GT (2009) Amine scrubbing for CO2 capture. Science 325:1652–1654

A journal article with 2 authors

Booth B, Bellouin N (2015) Climate change: Black carbon and atmospheric feedbacks. Nature 519:167–168

A journal article with 3 authors

Motose H, Sugiyama M, Fukuda H (2004) A proteoglycan mediates inductive interaction during plant vascular development. Nature 429:873–878

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Naebe M, Wang J, Amini A, et al (2014) Mechanical property and structure of covalent functionalised graphene/epoxy nanocomposites. Sci Rep 4:4375

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Xing B, Vecitis CD, Senesi N (2016) Engineered Nanoparticles and the Environment: Biophysicochemical Processes and Toxicity. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Jiang T, Hwang J-Y, Alvear F. GRF, et al (2016) 6th International Symposium on High-Temperature Metallurgical Processing. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Buizza C, Imbasciati A (2009) La dimensione emotiva dell’attrazione sessuale. In: Ghilardi A (ed) Sentire e pensare: Emozioni e apprendimento fra mente e cervello. Springer, Milano, pp 41–44

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 Physiology and Biochemistry.

Blog post

Davis J (2015) Middle Eastern Organization Requests First Ever Withdrawal From The “Doomsday” Seed Vault. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/middle-eastern-organization-requests-first-ever-withdrawal-doomsday-seed-vault/. Accessed 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 (2001) Internal Revenue Service: 2001 Tax Filing Season, Systems Modernization, and Security of Electronic Filing. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Gonzalez ER (2015) Technology and adiposity: Effects of television time, video or computer game time, and computer use on body fat among Latino youth. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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

Kanter J, Kitsantonis N (2017) Eurozone Agrees to Greece Debt Talks in Exchange for Bailout Payments. New York Times B4

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 title	Journal of Physiology and Biochemistry
Abbreviation	J. Physiol. Biochem.
ISSN (print)	1138-7548
ISSN (online)	1877-8755
Scope	Biochemistry Physiology General Medicine