How to format your references using the Endocrine-Related Cancer citation style

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

McLean AR 2013 Epidemiology. Coming to an airport near you. Science (New York, N.Y.) 342 1330–1331.

A journal article with 2 authors

Tozer S & Morin X 2014 Neuroscience. Young neurons sever ties to the parental niche. Science (New York, N.Y.) 343 146–147.

A journal article with 3 authors

Day JMD, Pearson DG & Taylor LA 2007 Highly siderophile element constraints on accretion and differentiation of the Earth-Moon system. Science (New York, N.Y.) 315 217–219.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Yagi H, Nakagawa N, Saito T, Kiyonari H, Abe T, Toda T, Wu S-W, Khoo K-H, Oka S & Kato K 2013 AGO61-dependent GlcNAc modification primes the formation of functional glycans on α-dystroglycan. Scientific Reports 3 3288.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Fayngold M 2005 Special Relativity and Motions Faster than Light. Weinheim, FRG: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Vardanega T & Wellings A 2005 Reliable Software Technology – Ada-Europe 2005: 10th Ada-Europe International Conference on Reliable Software Technologies, York, UK, June 20-24, 2005. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Yoshiuchi K 2014 Momentary Measurement of Psychosocial Factors. In Psychosocial Factors at Work in the Asia Pacific, pp 117–125. Eds MF Dollard, A Shimazu, R Bin Nordin, P Brough & MR Tuckey. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

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-Related Cancer.

Blog post

Taub B 2016 Smell Receptors In Lungs Could Hold Key To Treating Asthma. In IFLScience. IFLScience.

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 1981 Greater Use of Satellite Telecommunications To Link ADP Facilities Could Save Millions. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

De Felice D 2013 A Phenomenological Study of Teaching Endangered Languages Online: Perspectives from Nahua and Mayan Educators. Tampa, FL: University of South Florida.

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

Kelly C 2009 My Other Job, Crazy as It Is, Keeps Me Sane. New York Times BU2.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (McLean 2013).
This sentence cites two references (McLean 2013; Tozer & Morin 2014).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Tozer & Morin 2014)
Three authors: (Day et al. 2007)
Four or more authors: (Yagi et al. 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Endocrine-Related Cancer
Abbreviation	Endocr. Relat. Cancer
ISSN (print)	1351-0088
ISSN (online)	1479-6821
Scope	Cancer Research Endocrinology Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism Oncology