How to format your references using the Endocrine Reviews citation style

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

Clery D. Space physics. LISA Pathfinder tests spacetime sensor. Science 2015;350(6263):894–895.

A journal article with 2 authors

Thursby JG, Thursby MC. Intellectual property. University licensing and the Bayh-Dole Act. Science 2003;301(5636):1052.

A journal article with 3 authors

Tanaka G, Urabe C, Aihara K. Random and targeted interventions for epidemic control in metapopulation models. Sci. Rep. 2014;4:5522.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Lam YA, Lawson TG, Velayutham M, Zweier JL, Pickart CM. A proteasomal ATPase subunit recognizes the polyubiquitin degradation signal. Nature 2002;416(6882):763–767.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Pick JB. Geo-Business GIS in the Digital Organization. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2012.

An edited book

Lee R, ed. Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Networking and Parallel/Distributed Computing. Heidelberg: Springer International Publishing; 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

Milutinović V, Salom J, Trifunovic N, Giorgi R. Using the WebIDE. In: Salom J, Trifunovic N, Giorgi R, eds. Guide to DataFlow Supercomputing: Basic Concepts, Case Studies, and a Detailed Example. Computer Communications and Networks. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015:107–122.

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 Reviews.

Blog post

Andrew E. Why Do We Sleep? IFLScience 2015. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/why-do-we-sleep/. Accessed October 30, 2018.

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. DOT Headquarters: Unclear Whether Union Station Site Is Best Location. 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

Sato O. The use of statistical metrics as a decision making tool in brief experimental analysis. 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

Greenhouse L. Justices Turn Aside Case of Man Accusing C.I.A. of Torture. New York Times. October 10, 2007:A20.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in parentheses:

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 Reviews
Abbreviation	Endocr. Rev.
ISSN (print)	0163-769X
ISSN (online)	1945-7189
Scope	Endocrinology Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism