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

Smaglik P. Beyond the helix. Nature 2003;422(6934):927.

A journal article with 2 authors

Gneiting T, Raftery AE. Atmospheric science. Weather forecasting with ensemble methods. Science 2005;310(5746):248–249.

A journal article with 3 authors

Costello MJ, May RM, Stork NE. Response to comments on “Can we name Earth’s species before they go extinct?” Science 2013;341(6143):237.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Fang Y, Vilella-Bach M, Bachmann R, Flanigan A, Chen J. Phosphatidic acid-mediated mitogenic activation of mTOR signaling. Science 2001;294(5548):1942–1945.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Attwood D, Baybutt P, Devlin C, Fluharty W, Hughes G, Isaacson D, Joyner P, Lee E, Lorenzo D, Morrison L, Ormsby B. Human Factors Methods for Improving Performance in the Process Industries. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2006.

An edited book

Shayler DJ. The Hubble Space Telescope: From Concept to Success. (Harland DM, ed.). New York, NY: Springer; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

Kibbi N, Kluger H, Choi JN. Melanoma: Clinical Presentations. In: Kaufman HL, Mehnert JM, eds. Melanoma. Cancer Treatment and Research. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016:107–129.

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

O`Callaghan J. These Two Planets Should Be Identical But They’re Not. IFLScience 2017. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/space/these-two-planets-should-be-identical-but-theyre-not/. 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. Aviation Security: TSA Has Strengthened Efforts to Plan for the Optimal Deployment of Checked Baggage Screening Systems, but Funding Uncertainties Remain. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2006.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Ruiz-Resto JV. The Effects of Technical and Imagery-based Instruction on Aspiring Performing Artists’ Acquisition of Learning Newly Composed Pieces and Improvisation and on Listeners’ Perceived Expressivity. 2016.

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

Stewart S. High Spirits on the Intracoastal. New York Times. March 12, 2015:TR10.

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