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

Grogan D 2015 The microbes within. Nature 518 S2.

A journal article with 2 authors

Richter JD & Sonenberg N 2005 Regulation of cap-dependent translation by eIF4E inhibitory proteins. Nature 433 477–480.

A journal article with 3 authors

Cho Y, Lee JB & Hong J 2014 Controlled release of an anti-cancer drug from DNA structured nano-films. Scientific Reports 4 4078.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Hu J, Aguirre M, Peto C, Alonso J, Ecker J & Chory J 2002 A role for peroxisomes in photomorphogenesis and development of Arabidopsis. Science (New York, N.Y.) 297 405–409.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Rogers EF Jr 2013 Aquinas and the Supreme Court. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Kant S & Berry RA 2005 Institutions, Sustainability, and Natural Resources: Institutions for Sustainable Forest Management. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Lee AN & Nie Y 2015 The ‘Why’ and ‘How’ of Engaging Parents in Their Children’s Science Learning in Informal Contexts: Theoretical Perspectives and Applications. In Science Education in East Asia: Pedagogical Innovations and Research-Informed Practices, pp 93–121. Ed MS Khine. 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 Molecular Endocrinology.

Blog post

Fang J 2014 Early Cretaceous Bloodsucking Bugs Found in China. 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 Airline Competition: Higher Fares and Reduced Competition at Concentrated Airports. 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

Magner TJ 2014 Performance and leadership in multiplayer online gaming. Malibu, CA: Pepperdine University.

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

Douglas Stone A & Schwab-Stone M 2016 Why College Is Not Home. New York Times ED21.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Grogan 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Richter & Sonenberg 2005; Grogan 2015).

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

Two authors: (Richter & Sonenberg 2005)
Three authors: (Cho et al. 2014)
Four or more authors: (Hu et al. 2002)

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