How to format your references using the International Journal of Endocrine Oncology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Journal of Endocrine Oncology. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Bourzac K. Microbiome: the bacterial tightrope. Nature. 516(7529), S14-6 (2014).

A journal article with 2 authors

Watson R, Pauly D. Systematic distortions in world fisheries catch trends. Nature. 414(6863), 534–536 (2001).

A journal article with 3 authors

Prahlad V, Cornelius T, Morimoto RI. Regulation of the cellular heat shock response in Caenorhabditis elegans by thermosensory neurons. Science. 320(5877), 811–814 (2008).

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Harrison SP, Yu G, Takahara H, Prentice IC. Palaeovegetation. Diversity of temperate plants in east Asia. Nature. 413(6852), 129–130 (2001).

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Wilson DA. Forensic Procedures for Boundary and Title Investigation. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Meharg AA. Arsenic & Rice. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht.

A chapter in an edited book

Vila C, Estruch A, Siller HR, Abellán JV, Romero F. Workflow Methodology for Collaborative Design and Manufacturing. In: Cooperative Design, Visualization, and Engineering: 4th International Conference, CDVE 2007, Shanghai, China, September 16-20, 2007. Proceedings. Luo Y (Ed.), Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 42–49 (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 International Journal of Endocrine Oncology.

Blog post

Evans K. World’s First Lab-Grown Chicken Has Been Tasted And Apparently It’s Delicious. 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. Intercity Passenger Rail: Prospects for Amtrak’s Financial Viability. 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

Tabellario CM. A plan to establish a financial counseling center on the campus of California State University, Long Beach. (2009).

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

(nyt) SK. World Briefing | Europe: Russia: Blast In Dagestan Kills 3. New York Times, A8 (2005).

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

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	International Journal of Endocrine Oncology
Abbreviation	Int. J. Endocr. Oncol.
ISSN (print)	2045-0869
Scope	Cancer Research Endocrinology Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism Oncology

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