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

Bradner JE (2015) Cancer: An essential passenger with p53. Nature 520:626–627

A journal article with 2 authors

Hanski I, Ovaskainen O (2000) The metapopulation capacity of a fragmented landscape. Nature 404:755–758

A journal article with 3 authors

Sobolev AV, Hofmann AW, Nikogosian IK (2000) Recycled oceanic crust observed in “ghost plagioclase” within the source of Mauna Loa lavas. Nature 404:986–990

A journal article with 5 or more authors

de Lau W, Barker N, Low TY, et al (2011) Lgr5 homologues associate with Wnt receptors and mediate R-spondin signalling. Nature 476:293–297

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Smith DA, van de Waterbeemd H, Walker DK (2006) Pharmacokinetics and Metabolism in Drug Design: SMITH: PHARMACOKINETICS AND METABOLISM IN DRUG DESIGN O-BK. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, FRG

An edited book

Madenci E (2014) Peridynamic Theory and Its Applications. Springer, New York, NY

A chapter in an edited book

Kiayias A, Zhou H-S (2006) Concurrent Blind Signatures Without Random Oracles. In: Prisco RD, Yung M (eds) Security and Cryptography for Networks: 5th International Conference, SCN 2006, Maiori, Italy, September 6-8, 2006. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 49–62

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

Taub B (2017) Ruby Seadragon Has Been Seen In The Wild For The First Time. 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 (1993) Space Operations: Archiving Space Science Data Needs Further Management Improvements. 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

Hutter-Thomas S (2017) Sociocultural Evolution: An Examination of Unorthodox Elective Body Modification. Doctoral dissertation, Capella 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

Romero S, Bosman J (2017) As Waters Took Mother, a Child Held on to Life. New York Times A1

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