How to format your references using the Journal of Clinical and Translational Endocrinology: Case Reports citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Clinical and Translational Endocrinology: Case Reports. 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

[1]

Carrero-Martínez FA. Education. Rethink summer student research. Science 2011;334:313.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Sun Z-W, Allis CD. Ubiquitination of histone H2B regulates H3 methylation and gene silencing in yeast. Nature 2002;418:104–8.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Ziegler AD, Fox JM, Xu J. Agriculture. The rubber juggernaut. Science 2009;324:1024–5.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Morgan V, Delmotte M, van Ommen T, Jouzel J, Chappellaz J, Woon S, et al. Relative timing of deglacial climate events in Antarctica and Greenland. Science 2002;297:1862–4.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Al-Shuhail AA, Al-Dossary SA, Mousa WA. Seismic Data Interpretation using Digital Image Processing. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2017.

An edited book

[1]

Yamaguchi T, editor. Practical Aspects of Knowledge Management: 7th International Conference, PAKM 2008, Yokohama, Japan, November 22-23, 2008. Proceedings. vol. 5345. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2008.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Redline RW. Placental Inflammation. In: Keeling JW, Khong TY, editors. Fetal and Neonatal Pathology, London: Springer; 2007, p. 90–101.

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 Journal of Clinical and Translational Endocrinology: Case Reports.

Blog post

[1]

Carpineti A. What Would You See If You Turned Your Headlights On While Driving A Car At Lightspeed? IFLScience 2016. https://www.iflscience.com/physics/what-would-you-see-if-you-turned-your-headlights-on-while-driving-a-car-at-lightspeed/ (accessed October 30, 2018).

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

[1]

Government Accountability Office. Direct Student Loans. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1995.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Buzinski P. Exploring job satisfaction of long-term virtual employees. Doctoral dissertation. University of Phoenix, 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

[1]

Burghardt LF. Climbing the Walls Beats Cabin Fever. New York Times 2005:14LI16.

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	Journal of Clinical and Translational Endocrinology: Case Reports
Abbreviation	J. Clin. Transl. Endocrinol. Case Rep.
ISSN (print)	2214-6245
Scope