How to format your references using the Journal of Comparative Physiology B citation style

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

Adam D (2001) British archaeology boost may uncover old enthusiasm. Nature 413:338

A journal article with 2 authors

Margoliash D, Hale ME (2008) Neuroscience. Vertebrate vocalizations. Science 321:347–348

A journal article with 3 authors

Hulme M, O’Neill SJ, Dessai S (2011) Climate change. Is weather event attribution necessary for adaptation funding? Science 334:764–765

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Sibly RM, Barker D, Denham MC, et al (2005) On the regulation of populations of mammals, birds, fish, and insects. Science 309:607–610

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Voldman SH (2006) ESD. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Kuge Y, Shiga T, Tamaki N (eds) (2016) Perspectives on Nuclear Medicine for Molecular Diagnosis and Integrated Therapy. Springer Japan, Tokyo

A chapter in an edited book

Oxman R (2011) Design Paradigms for the Enhancement of Presence in Virtual Environments. In: Wang X, Tsai JJ-H (eds) Collaborative Design in Virtual Environments. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp 41–49

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 Journal of Comparative Physiology B.

Blog post

Andrew E (2014) “Dead Hearts” Successfully Transplanted For The First Time. In: IFLScience. Accessed 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 (2002) Telecommunications: Additional Federal Efforts Could Help Advance Digital Television Transition. 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

Yarijanian AA (2017) Cardborigami’s Strategic Business Plan to Address Urban Homelessness. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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

Vecsey G (2010) U.S. Should Know There’s No Sulking in Soccer. New York Times B15

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Adam 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Adam 2001; Margoliash and Hale 2008).

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

Two authors: (Margoliash and Hale 2008)
Three or more authors: (Sibly et al. 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Comparative Physiology B
Abbreviation	J. Comp. Physiol. B
ISSN (print)	0174-1578
ISSN (online)	1432-136X
Scope	Animal Science and Zoology Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics Biochemistry Endocrinology Physiology