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

Pate BH. Chemistry. Taking the pulse of molecular rotational spectroscopy. Science. 2011;333:947–948.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kodra E, Ganguly AR. Asymmetry of projected increases in extreme temperature distributions. Sci Rep. 2014;4:5884.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kirichok Y, Navarro B, Clapham DE. Whole-cell patch-clamp measurements of spermatozoa reveal an alkaline-activated Ca2+ channel. Nature. 2006;439:737–740.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Murahashi T, Fujimoto M, Oka M-A, et al. Discrete sandwich compounds of monolayer palladium sheets. Science. 2006;313:1104–1107.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Mack I. Energy Trading and Risk Management. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2014.

An edited book

Rhim JS, Kremer R (eds). Human Cell Transformation: Role of Stem Cells and the Microenvironment. New York, NY: Springer, 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

Lutz C, Wolter F. Mathematical Logic for Life Science Ontologies. In: Ono H, Kanazawa M, Queiroz R de (eds) Logic, Language, Information and Computation: 16th International Workshop, WoLLIC 2009, Tokyo, Japan, June 21-24, 2009. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2009, pp. 37–47.

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

Andrew E. Gene Therapy Offers Fresh Hope to Cystic Fibrosis Sufferers. IFLScience, https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/gene-therapy-offers-fresh-hope-cystic-fibrosis-sufferers/ (2015, accessed 30 October 2018).

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. Grant Funds to Eisenhower College. GGD-77-47, Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 30 March 1977.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Eldridge RL. A Comparative Quantitative Study of Private College Audit Fee Behavior in a Highly Regulated Environment. Doctoral Dissertation, Northcentral University, 2012.

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

Kelly M. The First Couple: A Union of Mind and Ambition. New York Times, 20 January 1993, p. A13.

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