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

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Helin K. Bricks and mortar. Building Copenhagen’s BioCentre. Nature 2004;428:238.

A journal article with 2 authors

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Schrag DP, Linsley BK. Paleoclimate. Corals, chemistry, and climate. Science 2002;296:277–8.

A journal article with 3 authors

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Walsh JP, Cohen WM, Arora A. Science and the law. Working through the patent problem. Science 2003;299:1021.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

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Hanayama R, Tanaka M, Miwa K, Shinohara A, Iwamatsu A, Nagata S. Identification of a factor that links apoptotic cells to phagocytes. Nature 2002;417:182–7.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

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Loveland WD, Morrissey DJ, Seaborg GT. Modern Nuclear Chemistry. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2005.

An edited book

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Brüggemann R. Ranking and Prioritization for Multi-indicator Systems: Introduction to Partial Order Applications. New York, NY: Springer; 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

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Shah SR, Patel VR. Robotic Transperitoneal Four Arm Laparoscopic Radical Prostatectomy: Points of Technique. In: Stock JA, Esposito MP, Lanteri VJ, Albala DM, editors. Urologic Robotic Surgery, Totowa, NJ: Humana Press; 2008, p. 49–69.

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

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Fang J. In the Outback, Insects Build Little Houses to Keep From Drying Out. IFLScience 2014. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/outback-insects-build-little-houses-keep-drying-out/ (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

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Government Accountability Office. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s System of Accounting for Accounts Receivable. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1977.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

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Quackenbush CM. The Imaginal Stone: Stories of self and world. Doctoral dissertation. Pacifica Graduate Institute, 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

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Gustines GG. The Newest Superpower: Passing Through Network Walls. New York Times 2016:C5.

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