How to format your references using the Physiology citation style

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

Butler JH. Better budgets for methyl halides? Nature 403: 260–261, 2000.

A journal article with 2 authors

Wiseman BS, Werb Z. Stromal effects on mammary gland development and breast cancer. Science 296: 1046–1049, 2002.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bowman D, King G, Tapponnier P. Slip partitioning by elastoplastic propagation of oblique slip at depth. Science 300: 1121–1123, 2003.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Fontana M, Deppe T, Boyd AK, Rinzan M, Liu AY, Paranjape M, Barbara P. Electron-hole transport and photovoltaic effect in gated MoS2 Schottky junctions. Sci Rep 3: 1634, 2013.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ash MK. The Mary Kay Way. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2008.

An edited book

Roy D, Dorak MT, editors. Environmental Factors, Genes, and the Development of Human Cancers. New York, NY: Springer, 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

Leeson GW. Out of the Shadows: Are Grandfathers Defining Their Own Roles in the Modern Family in Denmark? In: Grandfathers: Global Perspectives, edited by Buchanan A, Rotkirch A. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2016, p. 69–88.

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 Physiology.

Blog post

Andrew E. Gold And Other Precious Metals In Human Feces Is Worth Millions [Online]. IFLScience IFLScience: 2015. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/precious-poop-scientists-mine-human-feces-valuable-metals-and-rare-elements/ [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. Year 2000 Computing Crisis: Actions Must Be Taken Now to Address Slow Pace of Federal Progress. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1998.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Aslanyan AL. Psycho-educational group for family members of adults with a mental health diagnosis: A grant proposal. California State University, Long Beach: 2014.

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

Sisario B. Reaching No.1 On the Billboard Charts. New York Times: C3, 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	Physiology
Abbreviation	Physiology (Bethesda)
ISSN (print)	1548-9213
ISSN (online)	1548-9221
Scope	Physiology