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

Powell K (2003) The data busters. Nature 421:970–973

A journal article with 2 authors

Watson AJA, Williams JMJ (2010) Chemistry. The give and take of alcohol activation. Science 329:635–636

A journal article with 3 authors

Willis KJ, Gillson L, Brncic TM (2004) Ecology. How “virgin” is virgin rainforest? Science 304:402–403

A journal article with 5 or more authors

He J, Liao X-Y, Zhu J-H, et al (2014) Association of MTHFR C677T and A1298C polymorphisms with non-Hodgkin lymphoma susceptibility: evidence from a meta-analysis. Sci Rep 4:6159

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bitton G (2010) Wastewater Microbiology. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Saxena A (2013) Sports Medicine and Arthroscopic Surgery of the Foot and Ankle. Springer, London

A chapter in an edited book

Caubergh M, Roussarie R (2016) Canard Cycles with Three Breaking Mechanisms. In: Toni B (ed) Mathematical Sciences with Multidisciplinary Applications: In Honor of Professor Christiane Rousseau. And In Recognition of the Mathematics for Planet Earth Initiative. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 61–77

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

Davis J (2016) Our Ancestors Were Breeding With At Least Four, But Potentially More Species Of Other Hominins. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/our-ancestors-were-breeding-with-at-least-four-but-potentially-more-species-of-other-hominins/. 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 (2009) Higher Education: Approaches to Attract and Fund International Students in the United States and Abroad. 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

Wrobleski MM (2010) The challenge of teen nutrition: An ecological view of socio-cognitive influences on urban, African-American adolescent diet quality. Doctoral dissertation, University of Maryland, College Park

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

Anderson J (2017) Pinning Award Hopes on a Powerful Song. New York Times C1

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