How to format your references using the Journal of Physiology - Paris citation style

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

Dalton, R., 2003. Researcher uncovers truth behind wartime security slur. Nature 421, 303.

A journal article with 2 authors

Alexander, T., Natarajan, P., 2014. Rapid growth of seed black holes in the early universe by supra-exponential accretion. Science 345, 1330–1333.

A journal article with 3 authors

Wise, C., Pawlyn, M., Braungart, M., 2013. Eco-engineering: Living in a materials world. Nature 494, 172–175.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Guo, Z., Maki, M., Ding, R., Yang, Y., Zhang, B., Xiong, L., 2014. Genome-wide survey of tissue-specific microRNA and transcription factor regulatory networks in 12 tissues. Sci. Rep. 4, 5150.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Deutscher Beton- und Bautechnik-Ver, 2015. Beispiele zur Bemessung nach Eurocode 2. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany.

An edited book

Cudré-Mauroux, P., Heflin, J., Sirin, E., Tudorache, T., Euzenat, J., Hauswirth, M., Parreira, J.X., Hendler, J., Schreiber, G., Bernstein, A., Blomqvist, E. (Eds.), 2012. The Semantic Web – ISWC 2012: 11th International Semantic Web Conference, Boston, MA, USA, November 11-15, 2012, Proceedings, Part II, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Black, A.P., Bruce, K.B., Noble, J., 2016. The Essence of Inheritance, in: Lindley, S., McBride, C., Trinder, P., Sannella, D. (Eds.), A List of Successes That Can Change the World: Essays Dedicated to Philip Wadler on the Occasion of His 60th Birthday, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 73–94.

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 - Paris.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2015. Beyond Pluto: New Horizons’ Mission Is Not Over Yet [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/space/beyond-pluto-new-horizons-mission-not-over-yet/ (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 1974. Subcontract Estimates Included in Prime Contract Prices at Amphenol Space and Missile Systems Division (No. 093129). 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

Vaughan, L., 2008. Executive function in daily life: Age-related influences of executive processes on instrumental activities of daily living (Doctoral dissertation). University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC.

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

Crow, K., 2001. Listening Hard to Softer Cries for Help. New York Times 146.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Dalton, 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Alexander and Natarajan, 2014; Dalton, 2003).

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

Two authors: (Alexander and Natarajan, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Guo et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Physiology - Paris
Abbreviation	J. Physiol. Paris
ISSN (print)	0928-4257
Scope	Physiology (medical) General Neuroscience