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

Greenberg EP (2003) Bacterial communication: tiny teamwork. Nature 424:134

A journal article with 2 authors

Sime LC, Wolff EW (2011) Antarctic accumulation seasonality. Nature 479:E1-2; author reply E2-4

A journal article with 3 authors

Baarlink C, Wang H, Grosse R (2013) Nuclear actin network assembly by formins regulates the SRF coactivator MAL. Science 340:864–867

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Mezzacapo A, Las Heras U, Pedernales JS, et al (2014) Digital quantum Rabi and Dicke models in superconducting circuits. Sci Rep 4:7482

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Norton L (2013) How to Be a Global Nonprofit. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Mielenz JR, Klasson KT, Adney WS, McMillan JD (2007) Applied Biochemistry and Biotecnology: The Twenty-Eighth Symposium Proceedings of the Twenty-Eight Symposium on Biotechnology for Fuels and Chemicals Held April 30–May 3, 2006, in Nashville, Tennessee. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ

A chapter in an edited book

Takuma T, Techaumnat B (2010) Electric Field Behavior for the Common Contact of Three Dielectrics. In: Techaumnat B (ed) Electric Fields in Composite Dielectrics and their Applications. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp 61–70

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

Andrews R (2017) Scientists Are Running For Congress Because “The Future Hangs In The Balance.” In: IFLScience. 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 (2003) Applying Agreed-Upon Procedures: Highway Trust Fund Excise Taxes. 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

Bannister RM (2017) To What Extent Are the Grade Configurations of Middle/High Schools and High Schools Related to Student Engagement? Doctoral dissertation, George Washington 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

Otis J (2016) In Debt, but Undaunted, a Mother Finds Her Home. New York Times A28

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