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

Steed JW. Crystals that breathe. Nature 2000;406(6799):943–944.

A journal article with 2 authors

Szalay A, Gray J. The world-wide telescope. Science 2001;293(5537):2037–2040.

A journal article with 3 authors

Farihi J, Gänsicke BT, Koester D. Evidence for water in the rocky debris of a disrupted extrasolar minor planet. Science 2013;342(6155):218–220.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Bibby TS, Mary I, Nield J, Partensky F, Barber J. Low-light-adapted Prochlorococcus species possess specific antennae for each photosystem. Nature 2003;424(6952):1051–1054.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Fliszár S. Atomic Charges, Bond Properties, and Molecular Energies. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2008.

An edited book

Krishnamachari B, Murphy AL, Trigoni N, eds. Wireless Sensor Networks: 11th European Conference, EWSN 2014, Oxford, UK, February 17-19, 2014, Proceedings. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

Biondi A, Testi AM, Gibson BES. Acute Promyelocytic Leukaemia. In: Houghton PJ, Arceci RJ, eds. Molecularly Targeted Therapy for Childhood Cancer. New York, NY: Springer; 2010:83–108.

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

O`Callaghan J. Playing Tetris Could Reduce Cravings For Drugs, Food and Sex. IFLScience 2015. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/playing-tetris-could-reduce-cravings-drugs-sex-and-food/. 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. FAA Budget: Important Challenges Affecting Aviation Safety, Capacity, and Efficiency. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1993.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Moretto L. Exploring the Nature of the Relationship Between Decision-Driven Scenarios and Decision Confidence in High-Velocity Environments. 2012.

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

Murphy MJO. The Amazin’ Mets’ Wives on the Brink in 1969. New York Times. October 30, 2015:C34.

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