How to format your references using the Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Molecular and Cellular 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

Waters, A.P., 2003. Parasitology. Guilty until proven otherwise. Science 301, 1487–1488.

A journal article with 2 authors

Liechti, R., Farmer, E.E., 2002. The jasmonate pathway. Science 296, 1649–1650.

A journal article with 3 authors

Foreman, B.Z., Heller, P.L., Clementz, M.T., 2012. Fluvial response to abrupt global warming at the Palaeocene/Eocene boundary. Nature 491, 92–95.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Sternberg, A., Gal-Yam, A., Simon, J.D., Leonard, D.C., Quimby, R.M., Phillips, M.M., Morrell, N., Thompson, I.B., Ivans, I., Marshall, J.L., Filippenko, A.V., Marcy, G.W., Bloom, J.S., Patat, F., Foley, R.J., Yong, D., Penprase, B.E., Beeler, D.J., Allende Prieto, C., Stringfellow, G.S., 2011. Circumstellar material in type Ia supernovae via sodium absorption features. Science 333, 856–859.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Senez, V., Thomy, V., Dufour, R., 2014. Nanotechnologies for Synthetic Super Non-Wetting Surfaces. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Pfeifer, K., Pfeifer, N. (Eds.), 2013. Forces of Nature and Cultural Responses. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht.

A chapter in an edited book

Berthold, J., Loogen, R., 2007. Parallel Coordination Made Explicit in a Functional Setting, in: Horváth, Z., Zsók, V., Butterfield, A. (Eds.), Implementation and Application of Functional Languages: 18th International Symposium, IFL 2006, Budapest, Hungary, September 4-6, 2006, Revised Selected Papers, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 73–90.

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 Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology.

Blog post

Hamilton, K., 2015. Neolithic Skeleton Reveals Ancient Case Of Rickets [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/environment/neolithic-skeleton-reveals-earliest-case-rickets-uk/ (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 1980. The Law Enforcement Education Program Is in Serious Financial Disarray (No. FGMSD-80-46). U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Scheepers, E.M., 2014. Psychotherapists’ use of outcome measures in psychotherapy practice: Differences related to academic background (Doctoral dissertation). Capella University, Minneapolis, MN.

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

Herrman, J., 2016. In Media Company Advertising, Sponsored Content Is Becoming King. New York Times B1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Waters, 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Liechti and Farmer, 2002; Waters, 2003).

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

Two authors: (Liechti and Farmer, 2002)
Three or more authors: (Sternberg et al., 2011)

About the journal

Full journal title	Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology
Abbreviation	Mol. Cell. Endocrinol.
ISSN (print)	0303-7207
Scope	Biochemistry Endocrinology Molecular Biology