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

Swift, J., 2014. The point of it all. Science 346, 882.

A journal article with 2 authors

Traas, J., Vernoux, T., 2010. Plant science. Oscillating roots. Science 329, 1290–1291.

A journal article with 3 authors

Toda, S., Stein, R.S., Sagiya, T., 2002. Evidence from the AD 2000 Izu islands earthquake swarm that stressing rate governs seismicity. Nature 419, 58–61.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Okazaki, R., Takaoka, N., Nagao, K., Sekiya, M., Nakamura, T., 2001. Noble-gas-rich chondrules in an enstatite meteorite. Nature 412, 795–798.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Péra, M.-C., Hissel, D., Gualous, H., Turpin, C., 2013. Electrochemical Components. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ USA.

An edited book

Biggeri, L., Ferrari, G. (Eds.), 2010. Price Indexes in Time and Space: Methods and Practice, Contributions to Statistics. Physica-Verlag HD, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Hardes, J., 2012. How to Manage Osteolytic Lesions, in: Bentley, G. (Ed.), European Instructional Lectures: Volume 12, 2012, 13th EFORT Congress, Berlin, Germany. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 45–58.

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

Hale, T., 2016. Open Internet Campaigners Celebrate New EU Net Neutrality Guidelines [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/technology/open-internet-campaigners-celebrate-new-eu-net-neutrality-guidelines/ (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, 1986. Computer Systems: VA’s Target Project Never Achieved Redesign of Its Processing Software (No. IMTEC-86-30BR). 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

Austin, C.A., 2013. Intravenous Exposure of Pregnant Mice to Silver Nanoparticles: Silver Tissue Distribution and Effects in Maternal and Extra-Embryonic Tissues and Embryos (Doctoral dissertation). George Washington University, Washington, DC.

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

Greenhouse, L., 2007. Justices Back Underwriters On New Issues. New York Times C1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Swift, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Swift, 2014; Traas and Vernoux, 2010).

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

Two authors: (Traas and Vernoux, 2010)
Three or more authors: (Okazaki et al., 2001)

About the journal

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