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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Molecular 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

Choi JR 2014 The effects of nonextensivity on quantum dissipation. Scientific Reports 4 3911.

A journal article with 2 authors

Molino JF & Sabatier D 2001 Tree diversity in tropical rain forests: a validation of the intermediate disturbance hypothesis. Science (New York, N.Y.) 294 1702–1704.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bongard J, Zykov V & Lipson H 2006 Resilient machines through continuous self-modeling. Science (New York, N.Y.) 314 1118–1121.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Huisken J, Swoger J, Del Bene F, Wittbrodt J & Stelzer EHK 2004 Optical sectioning deep inside live embryos by selective plane illumination microscopy. Science (New York, N.Y.) 305 1007–1009.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

D’Amico G, Di Biase G, Janssen J & Manca R 2017 Semi-Markov Migration Models for Credit Risk. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Günter P & Huignard J-P 2007 Photorefractive Materials and Their Applications 2: Materials. New York, NY: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Teo H-M 2016 Imperial Affairs: The British Empire and the Romantic Novel, 1890–1939. In New Directions in Popular Fiction: Genre, Distribution, Reproduction, pp 87–110. Ed K Gelder. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK.

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 Molecular Endocrinology.

Blog post

Fang J 2014 Killer Worm Sperm Stops Different Species From Breeding. 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 1985 Job Training Partnership Act, Title III Dislocated Worker Program. 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

Leal LS 2016 Pair correlations in clean magnetic Josephson junctions. 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

Joy S 2013 Time to Take the Leap. New York Times E11.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Choi 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Molino & Sabatier 2001; Choi 2014).

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

Two authors: (Molino & Sabatier 2001)
Three authors: (Bongard et al. 2006)
Four or more authors: (Huisken et al. 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Molecular Endocrinology
Abbreviation	J. Mol. Endocrinol.
ISSN (print)	0952-5041
ISSN (online)	1479-6813
Scope	Endocrinology Molecular Biology