How to format your references using the General and Comparative Endocrinology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for General and Comparative 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

Davidson, L.A., 2008. Developmental biology. Apoptosis turbocharges epithelial morphogenesis. Science 321, 1641–1642.

A journal article with 2 authors

Casali, A., Struhl, G., 2004. Reading the Hedgehog morphogen gradient by measuring the ratio of bound to unbound Patched protein. Nature 431, 76–80.

A journal article with 3 authors

Liu, W., Pellegrini, M., Wang, X., 2014. Detecting communities based on network topology. Sci. Rep. 4, 5739.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Riebesell, U., Zondervan, I., Rost, B., Tortell, P.D., Zeebe, R.E., Morel, F.M., 2000. Reduced calcification of marine plankton in response to increased atmospheric CO2. Nature 407, 364–367.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kay, R., 2014. Statistical Thinking for Non-Statisticians in Drug Regulation. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Oxford.

An edited book

O’Neil, M., 2015. Liver Pathology for Clinicians, 1st ed. 2015. ed, Pathology for Clinicians. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Pasadilla, G.O., Édes, B.W., 2015. Enhancing Social Protection, in: Kawai, M., Lee, J.-W. (Eds.), Rebalancing for Sustainable Growth: Asia’s Postcrisis Challenge, Economics, Law, and Institutions in Asia Pacific. Springer Japan, Tokyo, pp. 143–177.

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 General and Comparative Endocrinology.

Blog post

Andrew, D., 2016. Here’s The Real Reason Your Friend’s “Gluten-Free” Diet Might Be Making Them Feel Better [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/heres-the-real-reason-your-friends-glutenfree-diet-might-be-making-them-feel-better/ (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 1971. Acquisition and Use of Software Products for Automatic Data Processing Systems in the Federal Government (No. B-115369). U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Obidos, C., 2015. Attitudes toward and knowledge of advance directives: A quantitative study (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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., 2003. Making Sure Food Is as Italian As Caruso. New York Times 145.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Davidson, 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Casali and Struhl, 2004; Davidson, 2008).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Casali and Struhl, 2004)
Three or more authors: (Riebesell et al., 2000)

About the journal

Full journal title	General and Comparative Endocrinology
Abbreviation	Gen. Comp. Endocrinol.
ISSN (print)	0016-6480
Scope	Endocrinology