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

Krug, R.M., 2014. Influenza: An RNA-synthesizing machine. Nature 516, 338–339.

A journal article with 2 authors

Rickaby, R.E.M., Halloran, P., 2005. Cool La Niña during the warmth of the Pliocene? Science 307, 1948–1952.

A journal article with 3 authors

Assender, H., Bliznyuk, V., Porfyrakis, K., 2002. How surface topography relates to materials’ properties. Science 297, 973–976.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Stone, M.B., Bernstein, D.P., Barry, R., Pelc, M.D., Tsui, Y.-K., Schiffer, P., 2004. Stress propagation: getting to the bottom of a granular medium. Nature 427, 503–504.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kaufman, J.J., Woodhead, R., 2006. Stimulating Innovation in Products and Services. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Miller, T.L. (Ed.), 2016. Endurance Sports Medicine: A Clinical Guide. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Bitansky, N., Vaikuntanathan, V., 2016. Indistinguishability Obfuscation: From Approximate to Exact, in: Kushilevitz, E., Malkin, T. (Eds.), Theory of Cryptography: 13th International Conference, TCC 2016-A, Tel Aviv, Israel, January 10-13, 2016, Proceedings, Part I, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 67–95.

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. Earth’s Sixth Mass Extinction Has Begun, New Study Confirms [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL (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, 2012. Information Technology Cost Estimation: Agencies Need to Address Significant Weaknesses in Policies and Practices (No. GAO-12-629). 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

Cappiello, D.M., 2010. Minding the gap: Western export controls and soviet technology policy during the 1960s (Doctoral dissertation). University of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD.

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

Kelly, J., 2013. Figuring Out Who Really Had the Last Word in the Bush White House. New York Times C4.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Krug, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Krug, 2014; Rickaby and Halloran, 2005).

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

Two authors: (Rickaby and Halloran, 2005)
Three or more authors: (Stone et al., 2004)

About the journal

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