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

Liljas A. Biochemistry. Leaps in translational elongation. Science 2009;326(5953):677–678.

A journal article with 2 authors

McInerney JO, O’Connell MJ. Evolutionary developmental biology: Ghost locus appears. Nature 2014;514(7524):570–571.

A journal article with 3 authors

Zikherman J, Parameswaran R, Weiss A. Endogenous antigen tunes the responsiveness of naive B cells but not T cells. Nature 2012;489(7414):160–164.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Xiao H, Jiang N, Schaffner E, Stockinger EJ, van der Knaap E. A retrotransposon-mediated gene duplication underlies morphological variation of tomato fruit. Science 2008;319(5869):1527–1530.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Brauer RL. Safety and Health for Engineers. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2005.

An edited book

Chen J, Piuri V, Su C, Yung M, eds. Network and System Security: 10th International Conference, NSS 2016, Taipei, Taiwan, September 28-30, 2016, Proceedings. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

Akiyama J, Matsunaga K. Platonic Solids. In: Matsunaga K, ed. Treks into Intuitive Geometry: The World of Polygons and Polyhedra. Tokyo: Springer Japan; 2015:143–158.

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

Andrews R. American Farmers May Be Directly Feeding Cows Skittles In Odd Conspiracy. IFLScience 2017. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/american-farmers-directly-feeding-cows-skittles-odd-conspiracy/. 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. Bureau of Indian Affairs Schools: New Facilities Management Information System Promising, but Improved Data Accuracy Needed. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2003.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Detoya MS. Canned Food Choices of College Students Using the Nuval ® Nutrient-Profiling System. 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

Herrman J. Platform Companies Are Becoming More Powerful — but What Exactly Do They Want? New York Times. March 21, 2017:MM16.

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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