How to format your references using the Journal of Physiology - Paris citation style

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

Yamaguchi, A., 2001. Sex differences in vocal learning in birds. Nature 411, 257–258.

A journal article with 2 authors

Salzman, H., Lowell, L., 2008. Making the grade. Nature 453, 28–30.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hochberg, Y.V., Serrano, C., Ziedonis, R., 2015. ENTREPRENEURSHIP. Intangible but bankable. Science 348, 1202.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

O’Connell, A.D., Hofheinz, M., Ansmann, M., Bialczak, R.C., Lenander, M., Lucero, E., Neeley, M., Sank, D., Wang, H., Weides, M., Wenner, J., Martinis, J.M., Cleland, A.N., 2010. Quantum ground state and single-phonon control of a mechanical resonator. Nature 464, 697–703.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Reid, R., Fraser-King, G., Schwaderer, W.D., 2006. Data Lifecycles. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Takehara, K., Fujimoto, M., Kuwana, M. (Eds.), 2016. Systemic Sclerosis, 1st ed. 2016. ed. Springer Japan, Tokyo.

A chapter in an edited book

Mills, P.K., Snyder, K.M., 2009. Building Knowledge Advantage: Internal Market Imperatives, in: Snyder, K.M. (Ed.), Knowledge Services Management: Organizing Around Internal Markets, Service Science: Research and Innovations in the Service Economy. Springer US, Boston, MA, pp. 70–93.

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 - Paris.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2015. Newly Developed Artificial Limb Lets Amputees “Feel” [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/newly-developed-artificial-limb-lets-amputees-feel/ (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 1983. Review of the Upward Bound Program (No. HRD-83-19). 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

Crowley, C.J., 2010. A critical analysis of the CELF-4: The responsible clinician’s guide to the CELF-4 (Doctoral dissertation). Columbia University, New York, NY.

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

Kalogerakis, G., 2012. A Life in Pictures. New York Times MM50.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Yamaguchi, 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Salzman and Lowell, 2008; Yamaguchi, 2001).

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

Two authors: (Salzman and Lowell, 2008)
Three or more authors: (O’Connell et al., 2010)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Physiology - Paris
Abbreviation	J. Physiol. Paris
ISSN (print)	0928-4257
Scope	Physiology (medical) General Neuroscience