How to format your references using the Journal of Neuroendocrinology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Neuroendocrinology (JNE). 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

Malartre E. Words, words, words. Nature. 2000;406:833.

A journal article with 2 authors

Knohl A, Veldkamp E. Global change: indirect feedbacks to rising CO2. Nature. 2011;475:177–178.

A journal article with 3 authors

Dumont S, Salmon ED, Mitchison TJ. Deformations within moving kinetochores reveal different sites of active and passive force generation. Science. 2012;337:355–358.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Kato H, Goto DB, Martienssen RA, et al. RNA polymerase II is required for RNAi-dependent heterochromatin assembly. Science. 2005;309:467–469.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Cayuela Valencia R. The Future of the Chemical Industry by 2050. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, 2013.

An edited book

Pitilakis K, Franchin P, Khazai B, et al. (eds). SYNER-G: Systemic Seismic Vulnerability and Risk Assessment of Complex Urban, Utility, Lifeline Systems and Critical Facilities: Methodology and Applications. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

Choi J-U. Familial Moyamoya Disease. In: Cho B-K, Tominaga T (eds) Moyamoya Disease Update. Tokyo: Springer Japan, 2010, pp. 35–37.

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 Neuroendocrinology.

Blog post

Fang J. Tiny Sea Monkeys Drive Ocean Currents. 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. Data Mining: Results and Challenges for Government Program Audits and Investigations. GAO-03-591T, Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 25 March 2003.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Panjabi C. Real and imagined immigrant identities in the public sphere: Representations of South Asian women in literary and television media. Doctoral Dissertation, George Washington University, 2010.

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

Saslow L. 14,000 Sq. Ft., Shady Past, All for Just $8.3 Million. New York Times, 1 April 2007, p. 14LI2.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

This sentence cites one reference ¹.
This sentence cites two references ^1,2.
This sentence cites four references ^1–4.

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Neuroendocrinology
ISSN (print)	0953-8194
ISSN (online)	1365-2826
Scope