How to format your references using the The Journal of Physiological Sciences citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for The Journal of Physiological Sciences. 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

Pirrotta V (2003) Transcription. Puffing with PARP. Science 299:528–529

A journal article with 2 authors

Daw ND, Dayan P (2004) Neuroscience. Matchmaking. Science 304:1753–1754

A journal article with 3 authors

Hassan MA, Mahmoodian R, Hamdi M (2014) Modified smoothed particle hydrodynamics (MSPH) for the analysis of centrifugally assisted TiC-Fe-Al2O3 combustion synthesis. Sci Rep 4:3724

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Lachner M, O’Carroll D, Rea S, et al (2001) Methylation of histone H3 lysine 9 creates a binding site for HP1 proteins. Nature 410:116–120

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Huang Q, Jing S, Yi J, Zhen W (2014) Innovative Testing and Measurement Solutions for Smart Grid. John Wiley & Sons, Singapore Pte. Ltd, Singapore

An edited book

Chechurin L (2016) Research and Practice on the Theory of Inventive Problem Solving (TRIZ): Linking Creativity, Engineering and Innovation. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Djehiche B (2016) Statistical Estimation Techniques in Life and Disability Insurance—A Short Overview. In: Eddahbi M, Essaky EH, Vives J (eds) Statistical Methods and Applications in Insurance and Finance: CIMPA School, Marrakech and Kelaat M’gouna, Morocco, April 2013. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 127–147

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 The Journal of Physiological Sciences.

Blog post

Andrew E (2015) The Scariest Part Of Climate Change Isn’t What We Know, But What We Don’t. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/scariest-part-climate-change-isn-t-what-we-know-what-we-don-t/. Accessed 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 (1986) Guaranteed Student Loans: Better Criteria Needed for Financing Guarantee Agencies. 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

Barrie DB (2010) On the interaction of wind energy with climate and weather. Doctoral dissertation, University of Maryland, College Park

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

Poniewozik J, Hale M (2017) Ahead of Its Time? Let’s Look Back. New York Times AR29

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1, 2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	The Journal of Physiological Sciences
Abbreviation	J. Physiol. Sci.
ISSN (print)	1880-6546
ISSN (online)	1880-6562
Scope	Physiology