How to format your references using the Endocrine Disruptors citation style

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

Smith O. Development. Nota bene: a SAC of crumbs and stardust. Science 2001; 294:2498.

A journal article with 2 authors

Roach M, Sauermann H. ENTREPRENEURSHIP. Founders and joiners. Science 2015; 348:1200–1.

A journal article with 3 authors

Villar G, Graham AD, Bayley H. A tissue-like printed material. Science 2013; 340:48–52.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Trepat X, Deng L, An SS, Navajas D, Tschumperlin DJ, Gerthoffer WT, Butler JP, Fredberg JJ. Universal physical responses to stretch in the living cell. Nature 2007; 447:592–5.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Noar J. Interceptive Orthodontics. Oxford, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2014.

An edited book

Serneels B, Steyaert M, editors. Design of High Voltage xDSL Line Drivers in Standard CMOS. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2008.

A chapter in an edited book

Yasuda M, Shimoyama T, Kogure J, Yokoyama K, Koshiba T. Packed Homomorphic Encryption Based on Ideal Lattices and Its Application to Biometrics. In: Cuzzocrea A, Kittl C, Simos DE, Weippl E, Xu L, editors. Security Engineering and Intelligence Informatics: CD-ARES 2013 Workshops: MoCrySEn and SeCIHD, Regensburg, Germany, September 2-6, 2013. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2013. page 55–74.

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 Endocrine Disruptors.

Blog post

Andrew E. Researchers Develop Octopus-Inspired, Color-Changing Camouflage Material [Internet]. IFLScience2014 [cited 2018 Oct 30]; Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/technology/researchers-develop-octopus-inspired-color-changing-camouflage-material/

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. Traffic Safety: NHTSA’s Improved Oversight Could Identify Opportunities to Strengthen Management and Safety in Some States. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2008.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Owen AK. Preventive health behaviors: A look at the correlation between regular physical activity and routine cervical cancer screening. 2012;

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

Crow K. An Esteemed Seminary’s Earthly Concern: The Endowment Shrinks, but Bills Persist. New York Times2002; :144.

In-text citations

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

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	Endocrine Disruptors
Abbreviation	Endocr. Disruptors (Austin)
ISSN (online)	2327-3747
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