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

Nedergaard M. Neuroscience. Garbage truck of the brain. Science 2013; 340:1529–30.

A journal article with 2 authors

Whittall JB, Hodges SA. Pollinator shifts drive increasingly long nectar spurs in columbine flowers. Nature 2007; 447:706–9.

A journal article with 3 authors

Manoharan VN, Elsesser MT, Pine DJ. Dense packing and symmetry in small clusters of microspheres. Science 2003; 301:483–7.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Tomaru Y, Toyoda K, Suzuki H, Nagumo T, Kimura K, Takao Y. New single-stranded DNA virus with a unique genomic structure that infects marine diatom Chaetoceros setoensis. Sci Rep 2013; 3:3337.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Obayya S, Hameed MFO, Areed NFF. Computational Liquid Crystal Photonics. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2016.

An edited book

Marwala T. Militarized Conflict Modeling Using Computational Intelligence. London: Springer; 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

Ritter D, Herrmann C. A Graph API for Complex Business Network Query and Traversal. In: Dua S, Gangopadhyay A, Thulasiraman P, Straccia U, Shepherd M, Stein B, editors. Information Systems, Technology and Management: 6th International Conference, ICISTM 2012, Grenoble, France, March 28-30, 2012. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2012. page 52–63.

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. Ten Years After The De Menezes Killing, We’re No Better At Identifying Faces. IFLScience2015;

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. Pell Grants: Who Receives Them and What Would Larger Grants Cost? Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1988.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Dawood AA. Relationship between mental health and treatment seeking in an urban Muslim community. 2010;

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

Gordon MR. U.S. Mulls Providing Weapons to Ukraine. New York Times2017; :A4.

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
Scope