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

Shih WM (2015). Materials Science. Exploiting weak interactions in DNA self-assembly. Science 347, 1417–1418.

A journal article with 2 authors

Stocker R & Durham WM (2009). Microbiology. Tumbling for stealth? Science 325, 400–402.

A journal article with 3 authors

Santiago J, Henzler C & Hothorn M (2013). Molecular mechanism for plant steroid receptor activation by somatic embryogenesis co-receptor kinases. Science 341, 889–892.

A journal article with 20 or more authors

Donnelley M, Morgan KS, Siu KKW, Farrow NR, Stahr CS, Boucher RC, Fouras A & Parsons DW (2014). Non-invasive airway health assessment: synchrotron imaging reveals effects of rehydrating treatments on mucociliary transit in-vivo. Sci Rep 4, 3689.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ruiz J-L (2017). Supra-Gingival Minimally Invasive Dentistry. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Agarwal RP (2016). Hardy Type Inequalities on Time Scalesed. O’Regan D & Saker SH. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Harris JW, Gao T & Evers BM (2015). The Role of PI3K Signaling Pathway in Intestinal Tumorigenesis. In Intestinal Tumorigenesis: Mechanisms of Development & Progression, ed. Yang VW & Bialkowska AB, pp. 101–135. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

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

O`Callaghan J (2015). Celestial Fireworks due in 2018 When a Pulsar Passes Through the Atmosphere of a Giant Star. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/space/celestial-fireworks-due-2018-when-pulsar-passes-through-atmosphere-giant-star/ [Accessed October 30, 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 (1970). Status of Equipment, Automotive Mechanics Training Project. 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

Kress DM (2008). A phenomenological study exploring executive coaching: Understanding perceptions of self-awareness and leadership behavior changes (Doctoral dissertation thesis). University of Phoenix, Phoenix, AZ.

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

Chapman MM (2010). In Michigan, Homage to the Auto’s Heritage. New York TimesAU4.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Shih, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Stocker & Durham, 2009; Shih, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Stocker & Durham, 2009)
Three or more authors: (Donnelley 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