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

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

Wadman M (2001). US blood ban underlines CJD fears. Nature 412, 7.

A journal article with 2 authors

García-Bellido DC & Collins DH (2004). Moulting arthropod caught in the act. Nature 429, 40.

A journal article with 3 authors

McNally A, Prier CK & MacMillan DWC (2011). Discovery of an α-amino C-H arylation reaction using the strategy of accelerated serendipity. Science 334, 1114–1117.

A journal article with 20 or more authors

Wexler M, Panerai F, Lamouret I & Droulez J (2001). Self-motion and the perception of stationary objects. Nature 409, 85–88.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Svrcek WY, Mahoney DP & Young BR (2007). A Real-Time Approach to Process Control. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Wolfsberg M (2009). Isotope Effects: in the Chemical, Geological, and Bio Sciencesed. Hook WA, Paneth P & Rebelo LPN. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht.

A chapter in an edited book

Otero A, Félix P, Fraga S, Barro S & Palacios F (2006). A Hierarchical Pattern Matching Procedure for Signal Abstraction. In Current Topics in Artificial Intelligence: 11th Conference of the Spanish Association for Artificial Intelligence, CAEPIA 2005, Santiago de Compostela, Spain, November 16-18, 2005, Revised Selected Papers, ed. Marín R, Onaindía E, Bugarín A & Santos J, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pp. 31–41. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

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 The Journal of Physiology.

Blog post

Andrew E (2014). Physicists Develop Reversible Laser Tractor Beam Functional Over Long Distances. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/physics/physicists-develop-reversible-laser-tractor-beam-functional-over-long-distances/ [Accessed October 30, 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 (1992). Transportation Activities 1946-1975: Interview with Joseph P. Normile, Fred J. Shafer, and Thomas E. Sullivan. 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

Berbery ML (2010). Predictors of White adoptive parents’ cultural and racial socialization behaviors with their Asian adopted children (Doctoral dissertation thesis). University of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD.

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

Carlson L (2010). Come Committed or Stay on the Couch. New York TimesMB3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Wadman, 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Wadman, 2001; García-Bellido & Collins, 2004).

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

Two authors: (García-Bellido & Collins, 2004)
Three or more authors: (Wexler et al., 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	The Journal of Physiology
Abbreviation	J. Physiol.
ISSN (print)	0022-3751
ISSN (online)	1469-7793
Scope	Physiology