How to format your references using the Journal of Endocrinological Investigation citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Endocrinological Investigation. 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

Vicsek T (2002) The bigger picture. Nature 418:131

A journal article with 2 authors

Gerstner W, Naud R (2009) Neuroscience. How good are neuron models? Science 326:379–380

A journal article with 3 authors

Morens DM, Subbarao K, Taubenberger JK (2012) Engineering H5N1 avian influenza viruses to study human adaptation. Nature 486:335–340

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Li B, Friston KJ, Liu J, et al (2014) Impaired frontal-basal ganglia connectivity in adolescents with internet addiction. Sci Rep 4:5027

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Albright RD (2013) Death of the Chesapeake. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Schwartz DD (2015) Healthcare Partnerships for Pediatric Adherence: Promoting Collaborative Management for Pediatric Chronic Illness Care. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Tresadern P, Cootes T, Taylor C, Petrović V (2011) Face Alignment Models. In: Li SZ, Jain AK (eds) Handbook of Face Recognition. Springer, London, pp 109–135

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 Endocrinological Investigation.

Blog post

Andrew E (2015) What Makes Our Brains Unique? In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/brain/what-makes-our-brains-unique/. Accessed 30 Oct 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

Government Accountability Office (1978) Controls Are Needed Over Indian Self-Determination Contracts, Grants, and Training and Technical Assistance Activities To Insure Required Services Are Provided to Indians. 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

Virchez Azuara A (2015) A human resource perspective on the development of workforce agility. Doctoral dissertation, Pepperdine University

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

Belson K, Pilon M (2012) Hostility Lingers Over Wittenberg’s Handling of Marathon Cancellation. New York Times B15

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 Endocrinological Investigation
Abbreviation	J. Endocrinol. Invest.
ISSN (online)	1720-8386
Scope	Endocrinology Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism