How to format your references using the BMC Endocrine Disorders citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for BMC Endocrine Disorders. 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 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

1. Bishop RE. Structural biology: Lipopolysaccharide rolls out the barrel. Nature. 2014;511:37–8.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Freckleton RP, Sutherland WJ. Hospital waiting-lists. Do power laws imply self-regulation? Nature. 2001;413:382.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Vignal C, Mathevon N, Mottin S. Audience drives male songbird response to partner’s voice. Nature. 2004;430:448–51.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Erb RM, Son HS, Samanta B, Rotello VM, Yellen BB. Magnetic assembly of colloidal superstructures with multipole symmetry. Nature. 2009;457:999–1002.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Bennett DH. Bennett’s Cardiac Arrhythmias. Oxford: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2013.

An edited book

1. Petrosyan LA, Mazalov VV, editors. Recent Advances in Game Theory and Applications: European Meeting on Game Theory, Saint Petersburg, Russia, 2015, and Networking Games and Management, Petrozavodsk, Russia, 2015. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Kosmaoglou M, Novoselova TV, Cheetham ME. The Role of Chaperones and Co-Chaperones in Retinal Degenerative Diseases. In: Asea AAA, Brown IR, editors. Heat Shock Proteins and the Brain: Implications for Neurodegenerative Diseases and Neuroprotection. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2008. p. 109–23.

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 BMC Endocrine Disorders.

Blog post

1. Hale T. People Have Already Figured Out How To Cheat At Pokémon GO. IFLScience. 2016. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/people-have-already-figured-out-how-to-cheat-at-pokmon-go/. 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

1. Government Accountability Office. Air Traffic Control: Status of FAA’s Modernization Effort. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1991.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Liu T-WD. Isolation and Characterization of pco-1, which Encodes a Regulatory Protein that Controls Purine Degradation in Neurospora crassa. Doctoral dissertation. Ohio State University; 2003.

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

1. Kenigsberg B. Lost in Paris. New York Times. 2017;:C7.

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	BMC Endocrine Disorders
Abbreviation	BMC Endocr. Disord.
ISSN (online)	1472-6823
Scope	General Medicine Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism