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

Hestmark G. Oeconomia Naturae L. Nature 2000; 405:19.

A journal article with 2 authors

Pearson BJ, Doe CQ. Regulation of neuroblast competence in Drosophila. Nature 2003; 425:624–8.

A journal article with 3 authors

Uz BM, Yoder JA, Osychny V. Pumping of nutrients to ocean surface waters by the action of propagating planetary waves. Nature 2001; 409:597–600.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Joron M, Frezal L, Jones RT, Chamberlain NL, Lee SF, Haag CR, Whibley A, Becuwe M, Baxter SW, Ferguson L, et al. Chromosomal rearrangements maintain a polymorphic supergene controlling butterfly mimicry. Nature 2011; 477:203–6.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Wiens JA. Ecological Challenges and Conservation Conundrums. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2016.

An edited book

Johannesson P, Lee ML, Liddle SW, Opdahl AL, Pastor López Ó, editors. Conceptual Modeling: 34th International Conference, ER 2015, Stockholm, Sweden, October 19-22, 2015, Proceedings. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

Ge N, Pantel M, Crégut X. Automated Failure Analysis in Model Checking Based on Data Mining. In: Ait Ameur Y, Bellatreche L, Papadopoulos GA, editors. Model and Data Engineering: 4th International Conference, MEDI 2014, Larnaca, Cyprus, September 24-26, 2014. Proceedings. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2014. page 13–28.

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. Opportunity rover discovers mysterious rock on Martian surface. IFLScience2014;

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. Public Works Consolidation: Jacksonville Naval Public Works Consolidation. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1992.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Bell KD. Fatherhood connected: A curriculum development project for adolescent fathers in the juvenile justice system. 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

Gustines GG. Comics, Classic and Newer, Make a Comeback. New York Times2015; :B2.

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

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