How to format your references using the Current Opinion in Endocrinology, Diabetes and Obesity citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Current Opinion in Endocrinology, Diabetes and Obesity. 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

Alonso J-M. Neuroscience. Neurons find strength through synchrony in the brain. Science 2006; 312:1604–1605.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kmita M, Duboule D. Organizing axes in time and space; 25 years of colinear tinkering. Science 2003; 301:331–333.

A journal article with 3 authors

Jacobs SS, Giulivi CF, Mele PA. Freshening of the Ross Sea during the late 20th century. Science 2002; 297:386–389.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Goldraij A, Kondo K, Lee CB et al. Compartmentalization of S-RNase and HT-B degradation in self-incompatible Nicotiana. Nature 2006; 439:805–810.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Singer B, Fedorinchik G. Investment Leadership and Portfolio Management. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2009.

An edited book

Fatta-Kassinos D, Bester K, Kümmerer K, eds. Xenobiotics in the Urban Water Cycle: Mass Flows, Environmental Processes, Mitigation and Treatment Strategies. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

Purewal AS, Krauskopf B, Postlethwaite CM. Global Effects of Time-Delayed Feedback Control Applied to the Lorenz System. In: Control of Self-Organizing Nonlinear Systems. Edited by Schöll E, Klapp SHL, Hövel P (editors). Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016. pp. 81–103.

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 Current Opinion in Endocrinology, Diabetes and Obesity.

Blog post

Luntz S. Men And Women Have The Same Size Amygdalae. IFLScience 2017 https://www.iflscience.com/brain/men-and-women-have-the-same-size-amydalae/ (30 October 2018, date last accessed).

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. Space Communications: Performance of NASA’s White Sands Ground Terminal. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1990.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Vento KA. The Effects of Progressive Muscle Relaxation on the Subjective Well-Being of Collegiate Athletes. 2017.

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

Grynbaum MM. Another Press Secretary Profile. New York Times 2017 A2.

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 [1,2,3,4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Current Opinion in Endocrinology, Diabetes and Obesity
ISSN (print)	1752-296X
ISSN (online)	1752-2978
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