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

Gong P. China needs no foreign help to feed itself. Nature. 2011;474:7.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kuang S, Zhang T. Smelling directions: olfaction modulates ambiguous visual motion perception. Sci Rep. 2014;4:5796.

A journal article with 3 authors

Tomioka K, Yoshimura M, Fukui T. A III-V nanowire channel on silicon for high-performance vertical transistors. Nature. 2012;488:189–192.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Guo J, Ling H, Wu Q, et al. The choice of reference genes for assessing gene expression in sugarcane under salinity and drought stresses. Sci Rep. 2014;4:7042.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ghiani G, Laporte G, Musmanno R. Introduction to Logistics Systems Management. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2013.

An edited book

Li F. Euclidean Shortest Paths: Exact or Approximate Algorithms. London: Springer, 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

Borghese F, Denti P, Saija R. Transition Matrix of Single and Aggregated Spheres. In: Denti P, Saija R (eds) Scattering from Model Nonspherical Particles: Theory and Applications to Environmental Physics. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2007, pp. 109–134.

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. Antarctic Explorer’s Notebook Found And Restored After 100 Years In Ice. IFLScience, https://www.iflscience.com/environment/antarctic-explorers-frozen-notebook-found-and-restored/ (2014, 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. Expenditures for Telephone Services and Adequacy of Controls Over Such Services. B-118638, Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 31 May 1973.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Yoon Y. Nano-tribology of discrete track recording media. Doctoral Dissertation, University of California San Diego, 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

Williams J. A Different View of London. New York Times, 11 September 2016, p. BR6.

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