How to format your references using the Canadian Journal of Physiology and Pharmacology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Canadian Journal of Physiology and Pharmacology. 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

Kling, J. (2015). Cytometry: Measure for measure. Nature, 518(7539), 439–443.

A journal article with 2 authors

Yi, X., & Liu, C. (2014). Retention of cotyledons is crucial for resprouting of clipped oak seedlings. Scientific Reports, 4, 5145.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kim, M., Carman, C. V., & Springer, T. A. (2003). Bidirectional transmembrane signaling by cytoplasmic domain separation in integrins. Science (New York, N.Y.), 301(5640), 1720–1725.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Trauger, J. W., Kohli, R. M., Mootz, H. D., Marahiel, M. A., & Walsh, C. T. (2000). Peptide cyclization catalysed by the thioesterase domain of tyrocidine synthetase. Nature, 407(6801), 215–218.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Harris, J. (2013). The Utopian Globalists. Blackwell Publishing Ltd.

An edited book

Hesthaven, J. S., & Rønquist, E. M. (Eds.). (2011). Spectral and High Order Methods for Partial Differential Equations: Selected papers from the ICOSAHOM ’09 conference, June 22-26, Trondheim, Norway (Vol. 76). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Zechar, J. D., & Jordan, T. H. (2010). The Area Skill Score Statistic for Evaluating Earthquake Predictability Experiments. In M. K. Savage, D. A. Rhoades, E. G. C. Smith, M. C. Gerstenberger, & D. Vere-Jones (Eds.), Seismogenesis and Earthquake Forecasting: The Frank Evison Volume II (pp. 39–52). Springer.

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 Canadian Journal of Physiology and Pharmacology.

Blog post

Davis, J. (2016, May 26). England To Offer Gay Men HPV Vaccine For First Time. IFLScience. 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. (1997). Weather Satellites: Planning for the Geostationary Satellite Program Needs More Attention (AIMD-97-37). U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Whitbeck, D. C. (2013). Mapping of Sonoran Desert vegetation communities of San Cristobal Valley and southern Sentinel Plains, Barry M. Goldwater Range and variables influencing route proliferation in the Barry M. Goldwater Range’s San Cristobal Valley [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Arizona.

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

Williams, J. (2017, July 14). Star-Struck. New York Times, BR4.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Kling, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Kling, 2015; Yi & Liu, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Yi & Liu, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Trauger et al., 2000)

About the journal

Full journal title	Canadian Journal of Physiology and Pharmacology
Abbreviation	Can. J. Physiol. Pharmacol.
ISSN (print)	0008-4212
ISSN (online)	1205-7541
Scope	Physiology General Medicine Physiology (medical) Pharmacology