How to format your references using the Gastrointestinal Endoscopy citation style

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

Haucke V. Cell biology: On the endocytosis rollercoaster. Nature. 2015 Jan 22;517(7535):446–7.

A journal article with 2 authors

Young IM, Crawford JW. Interactions and self-organization in the soil-microbe complex. Science. 2004 Jun 11;304(5677):1634–7.

A journal article with 3 authors

Amari T, Canou A, Aly JJ. Characterizing and predicting the magnetic environment leading to solar eruptions. Nature. 2014 Oct 23;514(7523):465–9.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Bailes M, Bates SD, Bhalerao V, Bhat NDR, Burgay M, Burke-Spolaor S, et al. Transformation of a star into a planet in a millisecond pulsar binary. Science. 2011 Sep 23;333(6050):1717–20.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Clark M. Understanding Diabetes. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2006.

An edited book

Shen B. Modelling Rock Fracturing Processes: A Fracture Mechanics Approach Using FRACOD. Stephansson O, Rinne M, editors. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2014. XV, 173 p. 98 illus., 60 illus. in color.

A chapter in an edited book

Meyer M, Bergstraesser S, Zimmermann B, Rensing C, Steinmetz R. Modeling Modifications of Multimedia Learning Resources Using Ontology-Based Representations. In: Cham TJ, Cai J, Dorai C, Rajan D, Chua TS, Chia LT, editors. Advances in Multimedia Modeling: 13th International Multimedia Modeling Conference, MMM 2007, Singapore, January 9-12, 2007 Proceedings, Part I. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2006. p. 34–43. (Hutchison D, Kanade T, Kittler J, Kleinberg JM, Mattern F, Mitchell JC, et al., editors. Lecture Notes in Computer Science).

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 Gastrointestinal Endoscopy.

Blog post

Carpineti A. The Magnetic Field Across The Magellanic Clouds Has Been Mapped for the First Time. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2017.

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. Year 2000 Computing Crisis: FAA Must Act Quickly to Prevent Systems Failures. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1998 Feb. Report No.: T-AIMD-98-63.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Chen CY. The analysis of communication problems and language barriers between patients and physicians in California [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 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

de la MERCED MJ, Fandos N. Broadcaster Sets a Collision Course With Fox. New York Times. 2017 May 3;A1.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

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	Gastrointestinal Endoscopy
Abbreviation	Gastrointest. Endosc.
ISSN (print)	0016-5107
ISSN (online)	1097-6779
Scope	Gastroenterology Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging