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

Henderson GM. Climate. Caving in to new chronologies. Science 313: 620–622, 2006.

A journal article with 2 authors

Mery F, Kawecki TJ. A cost of long-term memory in Drosophila. Science 308: 1148, 2005.

A journal article with 3 authors

Fuster JM, Bodner M, Kroger JK. Cross-modal and cross-temporal association in neurons of frontal cortex. Nature 405: 347–351, 2000.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Orphan VJ, House CH, Hinrichs KU, McKeegan KD, DeLong EF. Methane-consuming archaea revealed by directly coupled isotopic and phylogenetic analysis. Science 293: 484–487, 2001.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Andresen R, Oades LG, Caputi P. Psychological Recovery. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2011.

An edited book

Shively JM, editor. Complex Intracellular Structures in Prokaryotes. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2006.

A chapter in an edited book

Murthy DNP, Jack N. EWs/MSCs: An Overview. In: Extended Warranties, Maintenance Service and Lease Contracts: Modeling and Analysis for Decision-Making, edited by Jack N. London: Springer, 2014, p. 91–125.

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. Chili’s Donating to Controversial Autism Organization [Online]. IFLScience IFLScience: 2014. https://www.iflscience.com/brain/chili’s-donating-controversial-autism-organization/ [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. Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Education: Governmentwide Strategy Needed to Better Manage Overlapping Programs. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 2013.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Baugh JB. Deregulation and management strategies: A case study of Georgia System Operations Corporation. Capella University: 2008.

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. Social Network Aims at the Biggest Fans of Live Music. New York Times: B4, 2016.

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