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

McGillicuddy DJ Jr. Oceans. Eddies masquerade as planetary waves. Science 2011;334(6054):318–319.

A journal article with 2 authors

Lee J-Y, Jameson SC. Immunology. Remembering to be tolerant. Science 2012;335(6069):667–668.

A journal article with 3 authors

Ginsberg MR, Rubin RA, Natowicz MR. Patterning of regional gene expression in autism: new complexity. Sci. Rep. 2013;3:1831.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Ding L, He S, Miao S, Jorgensen MR, Leubner S, Yan C, Hickey SG, Eychmüller A, Xu J, Schmidt OG. Ultrasmall SnO₂ nanocrystals: hot-bubbling synthesis, encapsulation in carbon layers and applications in high capacity Li-ion storage. Sci. Rep. 2014;4:4647.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Grous A. Applied Metrology for Manufacturing Engineering. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc; 2011.

An edited book

Baglay S, Nakache D, eds. Immigration Regulation in Federal States: Challenges and Responses in Comparative Perspective. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

Chiorean D, Petraşcu V, Ober I. Using Constraints in Teaching Software Modeling. In: Kienzle J, ed. Models in Software Engineering: Workshops and Symposia at MODELS 2011, Wellington, New Zealand, October 16-21, 2011, Reports and Revised Selected Papers. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2012:25–39.

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

Davis J. Even Elephants In Remote Rainforests Are Being Slaughtered. IFLScience 2017. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/even-elephants-in-remote-rainforests-are-being-slaughtered/. 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. Telecommunications: Direct Broadcast Satellite Subscribership Has Grown Rapidly, but Varies across Different Types of Markets. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2005.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

George KG. Revisiting “The Blue Line Blues”: Transit-Oriented Development in Inner-City Areas of Los Angeles County, 2000-2016. 2017.

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. Hip Injury Forces Kyrgios to Withdraw; Journeyman Challenges Murray. New York Times. September 4, 2016:SP8.

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

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