How to format your references using the Brazilian Journal of Physical Therapy citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Brazilian Journal of Physical Therapy. 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

Seehausen O. Evolution: Beauty varies with the light. Nature. 2015;521(7550):34-35.

A journal article with 2 authors

Mishima O, Suzuki Y. Propagation of the polyamorphic transition of ice and the liquid-liquid critical point. Nature. 2002;419(6907):599-603.

A journal article with 3 authors

Wolf SM, Annas GJ, Elias S. Point-counterpoint. Patient autonomy and incidental findings in clinical genomics. Science. 2013;340(6136):1049-1050.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Barnosky AD, Matzke N, Tomiya S, et al. Has the Earth’s sixth mass extinction already arrived? Nature. 2011;471(7336):51-57.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Feldmann D. Social Movements For Good. John Wiley & Sons, Inc; 2015.

An edited book

Bikakis A, Fodor P, Roman D, eds. Rules on the Web. From Theory to Applications: 8th International Symposium, RuleML 2014, Co-Located with the 21st European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, ECAI 2014, Prague, Czech Republic, August 18-20, 2014. Proceedings. Vol 8620. Springer International Publishing; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

Phan TN, Küng J, Dang TK. An Efficient Similarity Search in Large Data Collections with MapReduce. In: Dang TK, Wagner R, Neuhold E, Takizawa M, Küng J, Thoai N, eds. Future Data and Security Engineering: First International Conference, FDSE 2014, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, November 19-21, 2014, Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer International Publishing; 2014:44-57.

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 Brazilian Journal of Physical Therapy.

Blog post

Hamilton K. Gene-Editing Breakthrough Partially Restores Sight To Blind Rats. IFLScience. November 18, 2016. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/gene-editing-breakthrough-partially-restores-sight-to-blind-rats/

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. DOD Major Automated Information Systems: Improvements Can Be Made in Applying Leading Practices for Managing Risk and Testing. U.S. Government Printing Office; 2017.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Duberstein JN. The Shape of the Commons: Social Networks and the Conservation of Small-Scale Fisheries in the Northern Gulf of California, Mexico. Doctoral dissertation. University of Arizona; 2010.

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

Sisario B. SiriusXM to Pay in Copyright Suits. New York Times. November 29, 2016:C3.

In-text citations

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

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	Brazilian Journal of Physical Therapy
ISSN (print)	1413-3555
Scope