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

Keimer, B., 2001. Physics. Quasi-particles survive--for now. Science 292, 1498–1499.

A journal article with 2 authors

Côté, J.-F., Vuori, K., 2009. Cell biology. Two lipids that give direction. Science 324, 346–347.

A journal article with 3 authors

Lim, M.L.M., Land, M.F., Li, D., 2007. Sex-specific UV and fluorescence signals in jumping spiders. Science 315, 481.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Nedjic, J., Aichinger, M., Emmerich, J., Mizushima, N., Klein, L., 2008. Autophagy in thymic epithelium shapes the T-cell repertoire and is essential for tolerance. Nature 455, 396–400.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Doyle, J.F., 2005. Modern Experimental Stress Analysis. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Zwikael, O., 2011. Project Management for the Creation of Organisational Value. Springer, London.

A chapter in an edited book

Tibon-Czopp, S., Weiner, I.B., 2016. The Rorschach Inkblot Method: Research, in: Weiner, I.B. (Ed.), Rorschach Assessment of Adolescents: Theory, Research, and Practice, Advancing Responsible Adolescent Development. Springer, New York, NY, pp. 65–95.

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., 2014. Conjoined gray whale calves discovered off the coast of Mexico [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/conjoined-gray-whale-calves-discovered-coast-mexico/ (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, 1990. Space Operations: NASA Is Not Properly Safeguarding Valuable Data From Past Missions (No. IMTEC-90-1). 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

Trichon, M.C., 2010. Self-Help Conferences for People Who Stutter: An Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis (Doctoral dissertation). University of Louisiana, Lafayette, LA.

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

St. John Kelly, E., 1998. Implants Are Giving New Voices To Patients. New York Times F7.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Keimer, 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Côté and Vuori, 2009; Keimer, 2001).

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

Two authors: (Côté and Vuori, 2009)
Three or more authors: (Nedjic et al., 2008)

About the journal

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