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

Leach M 2007 Accommodating dissent. Nature 450 483.

A journal article with 2 authors

Wilson PA & Norris RD 2001 Warm tropical ocean surface and global anoxia during the mid-Cretaceous period. Nature 412 425–429.

A journal article with 3 authors

Zhang W, Kawamata H & Liu K 2009 CH stretching excitation in the early barrier F + CHD3 reaction inhibits CH bond cleavage. Science (New York, N.Y.) 325 303–306.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Ogawa Y, Kim SK, Dana R, Clayton J, Jain S, Rosenblatt MI, Perez VL, Shikari H, Riemens A & Tsubota K 2013 International Chronic Ocular Graft-vs-Host-Disease (GVHD) Consensus Group: proposed diagnostic criteria for chronic GVHD (Part I). Scientific Reports 3 3419.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Vitale J 2007 The Seven Lost Secrets of Success. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Nguyen NT 2012 Transactions on Computational Collective Intelligence VII. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Chauvicourt F, Orlando S, Desmet W, Gyselinck JJC & Faria CT 2016 Experimental Study on the Impact of the Number of Laminas on the Dynamics Behavior of an Electric Machine Stator. In Topics in Modal Analysis & Testing, Volume 10: Proceedings of the 34th IMAC, A Conference and Exposition on Structural Dynamics 2016, pp 73–79. Ed M Mains. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

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

Luntz S 2016 Why Do Bluebirds Have A Better Home Turf Defence? 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 1975 Technology Transfer and Innovation Can Help Cities Identify Problems and Solutions. 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

Le Blanc JD 2017 Helping African American Middle School Students Transition to High School with the New Normal Project: A Grant Proposal. 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

Stolberg SG & Walsh MW 2010 Obama Offers A Transit Plan To Create Jobs. New York Times A1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Leach 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Wilson & Norris 2001; Leach 2007).

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

Two authors: (Wilson & Norris 2001)
Three authors: (Zhang et al. 2009)
Four or more authors: (Ogawa et al. 2013)

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