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

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

O’Neill LAJ (2008) Immunology. How frustration leads to inflammation. Science 320:619–620

A journal article with 2 authors

Welker J, Giessibl FJ (2012) Revealing the angular symmetry of chemical bonds by atomic force microscopy. Science 336:444–449

A journal article with 3 authors

Yu Q, Liu X, Tang D (2013) Extreme extensibility of copper foil under compound forming conditions. Sci Rep 3:3556

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Ikegami M, Uemura T, Kishioka A, et al (2014) Striatal dopamine D1 receptor is essential for contextual fear conditioning. Sci Rep 4:3976

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Costa PJ (2017) Applied Mathematics for the Analysis of Biomedical Data. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Ortuño F, Rojas I (2016) Bioinformatics and Biomedical Engineering: 4th International Conference, IWBBIO 2016, Granada, Spain, April 20-22, 2016, Proceedings. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Liu B, Yang X, Kong L (2015) Classification of the Infectious Diseases. In: Li H (ed) Radiology of Infectious Diseases: Volume 1. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp 29–30

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 Physiology and Biochemistry.

Blog post

Andrews R (2015) Biodiversity Protects Ecosystems Against Climate Change. 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 (1982) Army’s Contracting Out of Laundry and Educational Testing Services at Fort Carson, Colorado. 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

Thompson P (2012) An exploratory study of work-related imagined interactions with real-life coworkers. Doctoral dissertation, Pepperdine University

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

Pilon M (2013) Top Sprinters Test Positive, Jolting Track World. New York Times A1

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

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	Journal of Physiology and Biochemistry
Abbreviation	J. Physiol. Biochem.
ISSN (print)	1138-7548
ISSN (online)	1877-8755
Scope	Biochemistry Physiology General Medicine