How to format your references using the Endocrinology citation style

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

Solow AR. Global warming: A call for peace on climate and conflict. Nature 2013;497(7448):179–180.

A journal article with 2 authors

Wäsch R, Cross FR. APC-dependent proteolysis of the mitotic cyclin Clb2 is essential for mitotic exit. Nature 2002;418(6897):556–562.

A journal article with 3 authors

Ahn KH, Lookman T, Bishop AR. Strain-induced metal-insulator phase coexistence in perovskite manganites. Nature 2004;428(6981):401–404.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Beaumont HJE, Gallie J, Kost C, Ferguson GC, Rainey PB. Experimental evolution of bet hedging. Nature 2009;462(7269):90–93.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Jay SA. High Voltage Electricity Installations. Chichester, England: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2006.

An edited book

Meesad P, Unger H, Boonkrong S, eds. The 9th International Conference on Computing and InformationTechnology (IC2IT2013): 9th-10th May 2013 King Mongkut’s University of Technology North Bangkok. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

Bhattacharya S, Michael N, Kumar V. Distributed Coverage and Exploration in Unknown Non-convex Environments. In: Martinoli A, Mondada F, Correll N, Mermoud G, Egerstedt M, Hsieh MA, Parker LE, Støy K, eds. Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems: The 10th International Symposium. Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2013:61–75.

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 Endocrinology.

Blog post

Taub B. Humpback Whales Protect Other Animals From Killer Whales, But No One Knows Why. IFLScience 2016. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/humpback-whales-protect-other-animals-from-killer-whales-but-no-one-knows-why/. 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. ADP Procurement: Better Capacity Planning Needed at Agriculture’s National Finance Center. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1991.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Minick V. Educators’ Beliefs About and Approaches to the Evaluation of Student Writing. 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

Crow K. Taken to the Cleaners Again. New York Times. January 14, 2001:146.

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	Endocrinology
Abbreviation	Endocrinology
ISSN (print)	0013-7227
ISSN (online)	1945-7170
Scope	Endocrinology