How to format your references using the Journal of Neurophysiology citation style

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

Smith S. Structural biology. Architectural options for a fatty acid synthase. Science 311: 1251–1252, 2006.

A journal article with 2 authors

Willis JK, Church JA. Climate change. Regional sea-level projection. Science 336: 550–551, 2012.

A journal article with 3 authors

Walsh KJ, Richardson DC, Michel P. Rotational breakup as the origin of small binary asteroids. Nature 454: 188–191, 2008.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Wu J, Kwok TY, Li X, Cao W, Wang Y, Huang J, Hong Y, Zhang D, Wen W. Mapping three-dimensional temperature in microfluidic chip. Sci Rep 3: 3321, 2013.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Zhu Z, Nandi AK. Automatic Modulation Classification. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2014.

An edited book

Shugart YY, editor. Applied Computational Genomics. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

Seegenschmiedt MH, Panizzon RG. Radiation Therapy of Nonmalignant Skin Disorders. In: Radiation Treatment and Radiation Reactions in Dermatology, edited by Panizzon RG, Seegenschmiedt MH. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2015, p. 43–71.

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 Neurophysiology.

Blog post

Andrew E. Don’t Fall For The Deep-Sea Scaremongers – Wild Fishing Is Healthy And Sustainable [Online]. IFLScience IFLScience2015.https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/don-t-fall-deep-sea-scaremongers-wild-fishing-healthy-and-sustainable/ [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. Information Technology: Investment Oversight and Management Have Improved but Continued Attention Is Needed. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 2011.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Kay K. A support group for older adult males struggling with depression: A grant proposal. California State University, Long Beach2013.

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

Kenigsberg B. Film Series. New York Times : C22, 2017.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Smith 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Smith 2006; Willis and Church 2012).

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

Two authors: (Willis and Church 2012)
Three or more authors: (Wu et al. 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Neurophysiology
Abbreviation	J. Neurophysiol.
ISSN (print)	0022-3077
ISSN (online)	1522-1598
Scope	Physiology General Neuroscience