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

Mirkin SM (2013) DNA replication: driving past four-stranded snags. Nature 497:449–450

A journal article with 2 authors

Gal-Yam A, Leonard DC (2009) A massive hypergiant star as the progenitor of the supernova SN 2005gl. Nature 458:865–867

A journal article with 3 authors

Back JM, McCue SW, Moroney TJ (2014) Including nonequilibrium interface kinetics in a continuum model for melting nanoscaled particles. Sci Rep 4:7066

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Zu F, Liu Z, Yao K, et al (2014) Nearly perfect spin filter, spin valve and negative differential resistance effects in a Fe4-based single-molecule junction. Sci Rep 4:4838

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Broekaert JAC (2005) Analytical Atomic Spectrometry with Flames and Plasmas. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, FRG

An edited book

Herkenhoff L (2013) Applied Statistics for Business and Management using Microsoft Excel. Springer, New York, NY

A chapter in an edited book

Bosse T, Mogles NM (2014) An Agent-Based Approach for Accident Analysis in Safety Critical Domains: A Case Study on a Runway Incursion Incident. In: Nguyen NT, Kowalczyk R, Fred A, Joaquim F (eds) Transactions on Computational Collective Intelligence XVII. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 66–88

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 The Journal of Physiological Sciences.

Blog post

Andrew E (2015) Fat Cells Help Protect Against Infections. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/fat-cells-help-protect-against-infections/. 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 (1980) Central Agencies’ Compliance With OMB Circular A-71, Transmittal Memorandum No. 1. 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

Castiglione A (2010) Counterproductive work behaviors: The role of employee support policies, envy, and narcissism. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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

Murphy MJO (2015) Weekend Entertainments From the Archives of The New York Times. New York Times C28

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

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