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

Harmon L. Journal club. An evolutionary biologist ponders the pace of evolution. Nature 2010;463(7284):1003.

A journal article with 2 authors

Alcorn JF, Kolls JK. Physiology. Killer fat. Science 2015;347(6217):26–27.

A journal article with 3 authors

Galdi S, Arcuri L, Gawronski B. Automatic mental associations predict future choices of undecided decision-makers. Science 2008;321(5892):1100–1102.

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

Costa PJ. Applied Mathematics for the Analysis of Biomedical Data. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2017.

An edited book

Surminski S, Tanner T, eds. Realising the “Triple Dividend of Resilience”: A New Business Case for Disaster Risk Management. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

Herbener J. Fed Policy Errors of the Great Depression. In: Howden D, Salerno JT, eds. The Fed at One Hundred: A Critical View on the Federal Reserve System. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2014:43–54.

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

Carpineti A. Have We Detected A Hint Of A New Force Of Nature? IFLScience 2016. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/physics/have-we-detected-hint-new-force/. 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. Comments on Energy Research and Development Administration’s Proposed Arrangement for the Clinch River Breeder Reactor Demonstration Plant Project. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1975.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Murray RW. The Florida Migrant Education Program: An analysis of programmatic and expenditure practices. 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

Shpigel B. Jets Face a Simple Test, Knowing How Hard It Is. New York Times. October 2, 2016:SP6.

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