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

Wallsten S. High-tech cluster bombs. Nature. 2004;428:121–122.

A journal article with 2 authors

Gulev SK, Latif M. Ocean science: The origins of a climate oscillation. Nature. 2015;521:428–430.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kikushima K, Kita S, Higuchi H. A non-invasive imaging for the in vivo tracking of high-speed vesicle transport in mouse neutrophils. Sci Rep. 2013;3:1913.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Wang K, Xiao J, Peng B, et al. Retinal structure and function preservation by polysaccharides of wolfberry in a mouse model of retinal degeneration. Sci Rep. 2014;4:7601.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Alsop A. Continuing Professional Development in Health and Social Care. Hoboken, NJ USA: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2013.

An edited book

Mester R, Felsberg M (eds). Pattern Recognition: 33rd DAGM Symposium, Frankfurt/Main, Germany, August 31 – September 2, 2011. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

Vinod Kumar TM, Bimal P. E-Governance for Public Realm: Around Panniyankara Monorail Station, Kozhikode, Kerala. In: Vinod Kumar TM (ed) E-Governance for Smart Cities. Singapore: Springer, 2015, pp. 99–157.

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

Taub B. Hangover-Free Alcohol Could Replace Normal Booze By 2050. IFLScience, https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/hangoverfree-alcohol-could-replace-normal-booze-by-2050/ (2016, 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. Maritime Security: DHS Could Benefit from Tracking Progress in Implementing the Small Vessel Security Strategy. GAO-14-32, Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 31 October 2013.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Caraballo-Cole T. Mindfulness-based mental health services for single mothers: A grant proposal. Doctoral Dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 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

Marx L. They Help Each Other and Their Country. New York Times, 1 November 2015, p. ST14.

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

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