How to format your references using the Physiological Reviews citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Physiological Reviews. 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	Download the output style file
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

Middelburg JJ. Oceanography. Escape by dilution. Science 348: 290, 2015.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hardie RC, Raghu P. Visual transduction in Drosophila. Nature 413: 186–193, 2001.

A journal article with 3 authors

Spencer TJ, Osborn T, Kohl PA. Materials science. High-frequency chip connections. Science 320: 756–757, 2008.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Ji Q, Luo Z-X, Zhang X, Yuan C-X, Xu L. Evolutionary development of the middle ear in Mesozoic therian mammals. Science 326: 278–281, 2009.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Gros D, Lannoo K. The Euro Capital Market. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2004.

An edited book

Sycara K, Gelfand M, Abbe A, editors. Models for Intercultural Collaboration and Negotiation. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

Crowder JA, Friess S. Modern Design Philosophy: Organizational Considerations for Agile Systems Design. In: Systems Engineering Agile Design Methodologies, edited by Friess S. New York, NY: Springer, 2013, p. 19–21.

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 Physiological Reviews.

Blog post

Andrews R. Ghost Ship Washes Up On Liberian Coast With Crew Missing [Online]. IFLScience IFLScience: 2016. https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/ghost-ship-washed-liberian-coast-could-have-been-set-fire/ [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. NASA Procurement: Opportunities to Improve Contract Management. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1992.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Munoz S. Mental Health Care for Foreign Born Latinos: A Grant Proposal. California State University, Long Beach: 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

Barboza D. Chinese Giant Rose on a Web Of Family Ties. New York Times: A1, 2017.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (2).
This sentence cites two references (2, 4).
This sentence cites four references (2, 4, 6, 8).

About the journal

Full journal title	Physiological Reviews
Abbreviation	Physiol. Rev.
ISSN (print)	0031-9333
ISSN (online)	1522-1210
Scope	Molecular Biology Physiology General Medicine Physiology (medical)