How to format your references using the American Journal of Physiology - Renal Physiology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for American Journal of Physiology - Renal 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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Smaglik P. Rewarding experience. Nature 425: 879, 2003.

A journal article with 2 authors

Temeles EJ, Kress WJ. Adaptation in a plant-hummingbird association. Science 300: 630–633, 2003.

A journal article with 3 authors

Stanley JD, Goddio F, Schnepp G. Nile flooding sank two ancient cities. Nature 412: 293–294, 2001.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Baerenfaller K, Grossmann J, Grobei MA, Hull R, Hirsch-Hoffmann M, Yalovsky S, Zimmermann P, Grossniklaus U, Gruissem W, Baginsky S. Genome-scale proteomics reveals Arabidopsis thaliana gene models and proteome dynamics. Science 320: 938–941, 2008.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Yoder CH, Leber PA, Thomsen MW. The Bridge to Organic Chemistry. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2010.

An edited book

Hu Z, editor. Programming Languages and Systems: 7th Asian Symposium, APLAS 2009, Seoul, Korea, December 14-16, 2009. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

Jackson D. A New, Node-Focused Model for Genetic Programming. In: Genetic Programming: 15th European Conference, EuroGP 2012, Málaga, Spain, April 11-13, 2012. Proceedings, edited by Moraglio A, Silva S, Krawiec K, Machado P, Cotta C. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2012, p. 49–60.

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 American Journal of Physiology - Renal Physiology.

Blog post

Andrew E. The Long Reach Of The Past: Did Prehistoric Humans Shape Today’s Ecosystems? [Online]. IFLScience IFLScience: 2015. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/long-reach-past-did-prehistoric-humans-shape-today-s-ecosystems/ [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. University Research: U.S. Reimbursement of Tuition Costs for University Employee Family Members. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1995.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Norton JC. Elementary ESL and General Education Co-Teachers’ Perceptions of Their Co-Teaching Roles: A Mixed Methods Study. George Washington University: 2013.

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

Eligon J. Cagey Mayweather Saves Fireworks for Last. New York Times: D3, 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	American Journal of Physiology - Renal Physiology
Abbreviation	Am. J. Physiol. Renal Physiol.
ISSN (print)	1931-857X
ISSN (online)	1522-1466
Scope	Physiology