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

Lewis J 2008 From signals to patterns: space, time, and mathematics in developmental biology. Science (New York, N.Y.) 322 399–403.

A journal article with 2 authors

Schiermeier Q & Smaglik P 2005 Homeward bound European Union. Nature 433 440–441.

A journal article with 3 authors

Allen M, Raper S & Mitchell J 2001 Climate change. Uncertainty in the IPCC’s Third Assessment Report. Science (New York, N.Y.) 293 430–433.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Hébert-Dufresne L, Allard A, Young J-G & Dubé LJ 2013 Global efficiency of local immunization on complex networks. Scientific Reports 3 2171.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Cerroni L, Gatter K & Kerl H 2009 Skin Lymphoma: The Illustrated Guide. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell.

An edited book

Camenisch J, Fischer-Hübner S & Rannenberg K 2011 Privacy and Identity Management for Life. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Kupferman O, Sadigh D & Seshia SA 2012 Synthesis with Clairvoyance. In Hardware and Software: Verification and Testing: 7th International Haifa Verification Conference, HVC 2011, Haifa, Israel, December 6-8, 2011, Revised Selected Papers, pp 5–19. Eds K Eder, J Lourenço & O Shehory. 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

Luntz S 2017 Industry-Funded Drug Trials Produce More Positive Findings. 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 1990 Space Operations: NASA Is Not Archiving All Potentially Valuable Data. 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

Hawkins AJ 2013 Measurement of the spacial distribution of heat exchange in a geothermal analog bedrock site using fiber-otic distributed temperature sensing. 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

Chira S 2017 New Era After O’Reilly? Women Aren’t So Sure. New York Times B7.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Lewis 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Schiermeier & Smaglik 2005; Lewis 2008).

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

Two authors: (Schiermeier & Smaglik 2005)
Three authors: (Allen et al. 2001)
Four or more authors: (Hébert-Dufresne 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