How to format your references using the American Journal of Physiology - Endocrinology and Metabolism citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for American Journal of Physiology - Endocrinology and Metabolism. 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 references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles 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

Boehncke W-H. Perspective: Don’t be superficial. Nature 492: S55, 2012.

A journal article with 2 authors

Krajcik JS, Sutherland LM. Supporting students in developing literacy in science. Science 328: 456–459, 2010.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bennett MJ, Lebrón JA, Bjorkman PJ. Crystal structure of the hereditary haemochromatosis protein HFE complexed with transferrin receptor. Nature 403: 46–53, 2000.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Strecker KE, Partridge GB, Truscott AG, Hulet RG. Formation and propagation of matter-wave soliton trains. Nature 417: 150–153, 2002.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Johnson A. Small Animal Pathology for Veterinary Technicians. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2014.

An edited book

Marshall CA, Nolan SJ, Newton DP, editors. Widening Participation, Higher Education and Non-Traditional Students: Supporting Transitions through Foundation Programmes. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

Pascucci A, Runggaldier WJ. Tassi d’interesse. In: Finanza Matematica: Teoria e problemi per modelli multiperiodali, edited by Runggaldier WJ. Milano: Springer, 2009, p. 199–261.

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 American Journal of Physiology - Endocrinology and Metabolism.

Blog post

Andrews R. Has The “Eighth Wonder Of The World” Been Found Again After Being Lost For 131 Years? [Online]. IFLScience IFLScience: 2017. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/eighth-wonder-world-found-again-after-lost-131-years/ [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. Landsat Policy Issues Still Unresolved. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1978.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Ray RT. Utilization of a Clinical Reminder System to Increase the Incidence of HIV Screening in a Primary Care Clinic. University of Louisiana: 2015.

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

Belson K, Pilon M. Concern Raised Over Painkiller’s Use in Sports. New York Times: A1, 2012.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (2).
This sentence cites two references (2, 4).
This sentence cites four references (2, 4, 6, 8).

About the journal

Full journal title	American Journal of Physiology - Endocrinology and Metabolism
Abbreviation	Am. J. Physiol. Endocrinol. Metab.
ISSN (print)	0193-1849
ISSN (online)	1522-1555
Scope	Physiology Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism Physiology (medical)