How to format your references using the Journal of Endocrinology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Endocrinology. 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	Download the output style file
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

Stevenson DJ 2001 Planetary science. Jupiter and its moons. Science (New York, N.Y.) 294 71–72.

A journal article with 2 authors

Zampieri N & Chao MV 2004 Structural biology. The p75 NGF receptor exposed. Science (New York, N.Y.) 304 833–834.

A journal article with 3 authors

Park HH, Woo K & Ahn J-P 2013 Core-shell bimetallic nanoparticles robustly fixed on the outermost surface of magnetic silica microspheres. Scientific Reports 3 1497.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Zhao Y, Dai X, Blackwell HE, Schreiber SL & Chory J 2003 SIR1, an upstream component in auxin signaling identified by chemical genetics. Science (New York, N.Y.) 301 1107–1110.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Tagliani M 2009 The Practical Guide to Wall Street. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Thaler E & Kennedy DW 2008 Rhinosinusitis: A Guide for Diagnosis and Management. New York, NY: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Hormazábal N, Cardoso HL, de la Rosa JL & Oliveira E 2010 An Approach for Virtual Organisations’ Dissolution. In Coordination, Organizations, Institutions and Norms in Agent Systems V: COIN 2009 International Workshops. COIN@AAMAS 2009, Budapest, Hungary, May 2009, COIN@IJCAI 2009, Pasadena, USA, July 2009, COIN@MALLOW 2009, Turin, Italy, September 2009. Revised Selected Papers, pp 70–85. Eds J Padget, A Artikis, W Vasconcelos, K Stathis, VT da Silva, E Matson & A Polleres. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

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 Endocrinology.

Blog post

Evans K 2016 Tech Supergroup Team Up To Fight ‘Extreme’ Hate Content On Social Media. In IFLScience. IFLScience.

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 1973 Difficulties of the Neighborhood Youth Corps In-School Program and Its Management Problems. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Martinez Abadia JM 2014 French for Spanish speakers: A contrastive study of English monolingual, bilingual, and plurilingual adult learners of French. Long Beach, CA: California State University, Long Beach.

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

Greenhouse L 2007 Court Hears Arguments Linking Right to Sue and Spending on Religion. New York Times A14.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Stevenson 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Stevenson 2001; Zampieri & Chao 2004).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Zampieri & Chao 2004)
Three authors: (Park et al. 2013)
Four or more authors: (Zhao et al. 2003)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Endocrinology
Abbreviation	J. Endocrinol.
ISSN (print)	0022-0795
ISSN (online)	1479-6805
Scope	Endocrinology Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism