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

Stocker TF. Climate change. The closing door of climate targets. Science 2013; 339:280–2.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kaspari M, Weiser MD. Ecology. Meet the new boss, same as the old boss. Science 2014; 343:974–5.

A journal article with 3 authors

Tao C, Cullen WG, Williams ED. Visualizing the electron scattering force in nanostructures. Science 2010; 328:736–40.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Ku Z, Rong Y, Xu M, Liu T, Han H. Full printable processed mesoscopic CH₃NH₃PbI₃/TiO₂ heterojunction solar cells with carbon counter electrode. Sci Rep 2013; 3:3132.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hooper J, Zalewski A, Watanabe E. Advanced Charting Techniques for High Probability Trading. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2013.

An edited book

Fang AC. Text Genres and Registers: The Computation of Linguistic Features. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

Seddon J, O’Donovan B, Zokaei K. Rethinking Lean Service. In: Macintyre M, Parry G, Angelis J, editors. Service Design and Delivery. Boston, MA: Springer US; 2011. page 41–60.

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

Luntz S. Common Pesticides May Lead To Early Puberty In Boys [Internet]. IFLScience2017 [cited 2018 Oct 30]; Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/common-pesticides-may-lead-to-early-puberty-in-boys/

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. Joint Strike Fighter: Management of the Technology Transfer Process. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2006.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Frost DC. Quantitative correlational study of communication satisfaction related to organizational proximity and face-to-face communication. 2009;

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

Johnson G. Turning Nature Against Cancer. New York Times2015; :D3.

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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