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

Connolly HC Jr. From stars to dust: looking into a circumstellar disk through chondritic meteorites. Science 307: 75–76, 2005.

A journal article with 2 authors

Fan QR, Hendrickson WA. Structure of human follicle-stimulating hormone in complex with its receptor. Nature 433: 269–277, 2005.

A journal article with 3 authors

Alford RA, Dixon PM, Pechmann JH. Ecology. Global amphibian population declines. Nature 412: 499–500, 2001.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Lachner M, O’Carroll D, Rea S, Mechtler K, Jenuwein T. Methylation of histone H3 lysine 9 creates a binding site for HP1 proteins. Nature 410: 116–120, 2001.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Center for Chemical Process Safety. Guidelines for Process Safety in Batch Reaction Systems. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1999.

An edited book

Nehm RH, Budd AF, editors. Evolutionary Stasis and Change in the Dominican Republic Neogene. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2008.

A chapter in an edited book

Cyran KA. PNN for Molecular Level Selection Detection. In: Proceedings of the European Computing Conference: Volume 1, edited by Mastorakis N, Mladenov V, Kontargyri VT. Boston, MA: Springer US, 2009, p. 33–38.

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

Hale T. AI Can Predict How Much Longer You Have Left To Live. IFLScience IFLScience: 2017.

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. Emergency Communications: Vulnerabilities Remain and Limited Collaboration and Monitoring Hamper Federal Efforts. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 2009.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Lackey GM. The efficacy of using a natural soil additive for the establishment, survival and diversity of native prairie and spontaneously colonizing plant communities on unirrigated green roofs in a humid subtropical climate. Mississippi State University: 2015.

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

Brantley B. Delightful in Their Depravity. New York Times: C1, 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

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