How to format your references using the Annual Review of Physiology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Annual Review 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 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

Vicsek T. 2001. A question of scale. Nature. 411(6836):421

A journal article with 2 authors

Macquaker JHS, Bohacs KM. 2007. Geology. On the accumulation of mud. Science. 318(5857):1734–35

A journal article with 3 authors

Bormashenko E, Musin A, Grynyov R. 2014. Scaling law governing the roughness of the swash edge line. Sci. Rep. 4:6243

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Noguera-Troise I, Daly C, Papadopoulos NJ, Coetzee S, Boland P, et al. 2006. Blockade of Dll4 inhibits tumour growth by promoting non-productive angiogenesis. Nature. 444(7122):1032–37

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Brown C. 2010. Fibonacci Analysis. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Liu J. 2011. Reliability of Microtechnology: Interconnects, Devices and Systems. New York, NY: Springer. XIII, 204 p p. 1st ed.

A chapter in an edited book

Vican D, Alfirević N, Relja R. 2016. Managing the School: Principals as Managers. In School Effectiveness and Educational Management: Towards a South-Eastern Europe Research and Public Policy Agenda, ed N Alfirević, J Burušić, J Pavičić, R Relja, pp. 67–85. Cham: Springer International Publishing

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 Annual Review of Physiology.

Blog post

Carpineti A. 2016. Have We Detected A Hint Of A New Force Of Nature? IFLScience. www.iflscience.com

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. 1985. Guarantee Agency Funding, Operations, and Reserves Under the Guaranteed Student Loan Program. 127236, 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

Lynch LE. 2013. Financial regulation and economic performance: A descriptive correlation study of American financial institutions. Doctoral dissertation thesis. University of Phoenix

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

Kishkovsky S. 2004. A Rock Telethon in Russia, Echoing the Mood of 9/11. New York Times, Sep. 9, p. A8

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in parentheses:

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	Annual Review of Physiology
Abbreviation	Annu. Rev. Physiol.
ISSN (print)	0066-4278
ISSN (online)	1545-1585
Scope	Physiology