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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for The Journal of 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	Download the output style file
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

O’Neill LAJ (2008). Immunology. How frustration leads to inflammation. Science 320, 619–620.

A journal article with 2 authors

Pollard D & DeConto RM (2009). Modelling West Antarctic ice sheet growth and collapse through the past five million years. Nature 458, 329–332.

A journal article with 3 authors

Regenauer-Lieb K, Weinberg RF & Rosenbaum G (2006). The effect of energy feedbacks on continental strength. Nature 442, 67–70.

A journal article with 20 or more authors

Gao Z, Hou L, Xu M & Tang D (2014). Enhanced colorimetric immunoassay accompanying with enzyme cascade amplification strategy for ultrasensitive detection of low-abundance protein. Sci Rep 4, 3966.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Schuenemeyer JH & Drew LJ (2010). Statistics for Earth and Environmental Scientists. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Sharman R, Rao HR & Raghu TS eds. (2011). Exploring the Grand Challenges for Next Generation E-Business: 8th Workshop on E-Business, WEB 2009, Phoenix, AZ, USA, December 15, 2009, Revised Selected Papers. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Nakamura M, Ogata K & Futatsugi K (2014). Incremental Proofs of Termination, Confluence and Sufficient Completeness of OBJ Specifications. In Specification, Algebra, and Software: Essays Dedicated to Kokichi Futatsugi, ed. Iida S, Meseguer J & Ogata K, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pp. 92–109. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

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 Physiology.

Blog post

Andrew D (2016). The Unbelievable Life Of The Forgotten Genius Who Turned Americans’ Space Dreams Into Reality. IFLScience.

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 (1998). District of Columbia Public Schools: Enrollment Count Still Appears Vulnerable to Errors. 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

Domec BS (2017). Development, Characterization, and Resultant Properties of a Carbon, Boron, and Chromium Ternary Diffusion System (Doctoral dissertation thesis). University of Louisiana, Lafayette, LA.

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

Kelly S (2000). Op-art; Sub-liminal. New York TimesA33.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (O’Neill, 2008).
This sentence cites two references (O’Neill, 2008; Pollard & DeConto, 2009).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Pollard & DeConto, 2009)
Three or more authors: (Gao et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	The Journal of Physiology
Abbreviation	J. Physiol.
ISSN (print)	0022-3751
ISSN (online)	1469-7793
Scope	Physiology