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]

Perk J. Perspective: The power of disease prevention. Nature 2013;493:S6.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Stone R, Lavine M. Robots. The social life of robots. Introduction. Science 2014;346:178–9.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Wen J, Zhou S, Chen J. Colorimetric detection of Shewanella oneidensis based on immunomagnetic capture and bacterial intrinsic peroxidase activity. Sci Rep 2014;4:5191.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Ferbitz L, Maier T, Patzelt H, Bukau B, Deuerling E, Ban N. Trigger factor in complex with the ribosome forms a molecular cradle for nascent proteins. Nature 2004;431:590–6.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Godwin W. International Construction Contracts. Oxford: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2013.

An edited book

[1]

Tweedale JW. Embedded Automation in Human-Agent Environment. vol. 10. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Greenfield S, Billimek J, Kaplan SH. The Total Illness Burden Index. In: Preedy VR, Watson RR, editors. Handbook of Disease Burdens and Quality of Life Measures, New York, NY: Springer; 2010, p. 73–85.

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]

Luntz S. Iceland Is Drilling World’s Hottest Hole To Create Electricity From Molten Magma. IFLScience 2016. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/iceland-is-drilling-worlds-hottest-hole-to-create-electricity-from-molten-magma/ (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. Remedial Education: Modifying Chapter 1 Formula Would Target More Funds to Those Most in Need. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1992.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Sparks GA. Charismatic leadership: An exploratory investigation of the techniques of influence. Doctoral dissertation. Capella University, 2008.

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]

Sisario B. Drake and Ed Sheeran Top the Chart, Again. New York Times 2017:C3.

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