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

Prelec D 2004 A Bayesian truth serum for subjective data. Science (New York, N.Y.) 306 462–466.

A journal article with 2 authors

Frazzetta TH & Kardong KV 2002 Biomechanics (Communication arising): prey attack by a large theropod dinosaur. Nature 416 387–388.

A journal article with 3 authors

Burkett V, Groat CG & Reed D 2007 Hurricanes not the key to a sustainable coast. Science (New York, N.Y.) 315 1366–1368.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Akimov AV, Mukherjee A, Yu CL, Chang DE, Zibrov AS, Hemmer PR, Park H & Lukin MD 2007 Generation of single optical plasmons in metallic nanowires coupled to quantum dots. Nature 450 402–406.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Welsh AH 1996 Aspects of Statistical Inference: Welsh/Aspects. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Faraco V 2013 Lignocellulose Conversion: Enzymatic and Microbial Tools for Bioethanol Production. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Nair TS, Sathye M, Perumal M, Applegate C & Sathye S 2014 Indian Microfinance and Codes of Conduct Regulation: A Critical Examination. In Globalization and Standards: Issues and Challenges in Indian Business, pp 103–120. Ed K Das. New Delhi: Springer India.

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

Andrew E 2015 This Insect Spits Poop-Smelling Chemicals into Predators’ Mouths. 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 2016 Information Technology: FEMA Needs to Address Management Weaknesses to Improve Its Systems. 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

Tillman KA 2017 Constructing the Concept of Time: Roles of Perception, Language, and Culture. La Jolla, CA: University of California San Diego.

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

Koblin J 2017 FX Plans a Commercial-Free Service With Comcast. New York Times B6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Prelec 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Frazzetta & Kardong 2002; Prelec 2004).

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

Two authors: (Frazzetta & Kardong 2002)
Three authors: (Burkett et al. 2007)
Four or more authors: (Akimov et al. 2007)

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