How to format your references using the European Journal of Endocrinology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for European Journal of 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

Bertola F. Astronomy. Putting galaxies on the scale. Science (New York, N.Y.) 2002 295 283–284.

A journal article with 2 authors

Pahnke K & Zahn R. Southern Hemisphere water mass conversion linked with North Atlantic climate variability. Science (New York, N.Y.) 2005 307 1741–1746.

A journal article with 3 authors

Lampard GR, Macalister CA, & Bergmann DC. Arabidopsis stomatal initiation is controlled by MAPK-mediated regulation of the bHLH SPEECHLESS. Science (New York, N.Y.) 2008 322 1113–1116.

A journal article with 31 or more authors

Yen TJ, Padilla WJ, Fang N, Vier DC, Smith DR, Pendry JB, Basov DN, & Zhang X. Terahertz magnetic response from artificial materials. Science (New York, N.Y.) 2004 303 1494–1496.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hernandez EM & Kamal-Eldin A. Processing and Nutrition of Fats and Oils. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd,2013.

An edited book

Gen M, Green D, Katai O, McKay B, Namatame A, Sarker RA, & Zhang BT. Intelligent and Evolutionary Systems. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer,2009.

A chapter in an edited book

Dobson J. Responsibility Modelling: Basic Concepts. In Responsibility and Dependable Systems, pp 91–114. Eds Dewsbury G & Dobson J. London: Springer,2007.

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 European Journal of Endocrinology.

Blog post

Fang J. Seal Fat Reveals Chemical Pollutants in the Deep Sea. IFLScience2015.

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. Credit Programs: Key Agencies Should Better Document Procedures for Estimating Subsidy Costs. 2016.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Munchel BF. Exploratory Study of Counseling Professionals’ Attitudes Toward Distance Clinical Supervision. 2015.

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

Giordano MA & Phillips AM. Mayor Hits Nerve in Remarks On Class Sizes and Teachers. New York Times 2011 A19.

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, 2, 3, 4).

About the journal

Full journal title	European Journal of Endocrinology
Abbreviation	Eur. J. Endocrinol.
ISSN (print)	0804-4643
ISSN (online)	1479-683X
Scope	Endocrinology General Medicine Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism