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

Goodman S 2004 Getting mobile in Europe. Nature 427 868–869.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kumar S & Vaux DL 2002 Apoptosis. A cinderella caspase takes center stage. Science (New York, N.Y.) 297 1290–1291.

A journal article with 3 authors

Pertsinidis A, Zhang Y & Chu S 2010 Subnanometre single-molecule localization, registration and distance measurements. Nature 466 647–651.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Mahata B, Mukherjee S, Mishra S, Bandyopadhyay A & Adhya S 2006 Functional delivery of a cytosolic tRNA into mutant mitochondria of human cells. Science (New York, N.Y.) 314 471–474.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Radzevich SP 2013 Geometry of Surfaces. Oxford, UK: John Wiley & Sons Ltd.

An edited book

Choi T-M 2012 Risk Analysis in Stochastic Supply Chains: A Mean-Risk Approach. New York, NY: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Paulino N, Garção AS & Goes J 2008 Digitally Programmable Delay. In Low Power Uwb Cmos Radar Sensors, pp 115–166. Eds AS Garção & J Goes. 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

Carpineti A 2016 Scientists Have Measured A Black Hole, And It Has A Mass Of 660 MILLION Suns. 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 2015 Women in STEM Research: Better Data and Information Sharing Could Improve Oversight of Federal Grant-Making and Title IX Compliance. 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

Sylvain O 2010 Domesticating “the Great, Throbbing, Common Pulse of America”: A Study of the Ideological Origins of the Radio Act of 1927. New York, NY: Columbia University.

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

Rothenberg B 2017 For a New Mother, It’s a Quick Return to Work. New York Times B8.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Goodman 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Kumar & Vaux 2002; Goodman 2004).

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

Two authors: (Kumar & Vaux 2002)
Three authors: (Pertsinidis et al. 2010)
Four or more authors: (Mahata et al. 2006)

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