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

Shelton, J.D., 2013. Ensuring health in universal health coverage. Nature 493, 453.

A journal article with 2 authors

Gregg, J.M., Kumar, A., 2014. Applied physics: trawling for complements. Nature 510, 481–482.

A journal article with 3 authors

Drinnenberg, I.A., Fink, G.R., Bartel, D.P., 2011. Compatibility with killer explains the rise of RNAi-deficient fungi. Science 333, 1592.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Sell, T.S., Belkacemi, T., Flockerzi, V., Beck, A., 2014. Protonophore properties of hyperforin are essential for its pharmacological activity. Sci. Rep. 4, 7500.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Fan, J., 2010. Multiscale Analysis of Deformation and Failure of Materials. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Chen, L. (Ed.), 2007. CD137 Pathway: Immunology and Diseases. Springer US, Boston, MA.

A chapter in an edited book

Al-Tamimi, H.A.H., Lafi, A.S., Uddin, M.H., 2016. Bank Image in the UAE: Comparing Islamic and Conventional Banks, in: Harrison, T., Ibrahim, E. (Eds.), Islamic Finance: Principles, Performance and Prospects, Applied Social Research Methods Service. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 46–65.

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

Andrew, D., 2016. Cracked It! A 30-Year Cold Case Involving An Egg And The Mysterious Night Parrot [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL (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, 2007. Public Transportation: Survey of Project Sponsors on Their Transit Projects and Experience with the Federal Transit Administration’s New Starts and Small Starts Programs (GAO-07-927SP, July 2007), an E-supplement to GAO-07-917 (No. GAO-07-927SP). 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

Bernal, E., 2013. Ethnographic research of emergent cultural themes from technology-based informal education in a museum (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Sisario, B., 2016. Opening Challenge for Prince Museum. New York Times C3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Shelton, 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Gregg and Kumar, 2014; Shelton, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Gregg and Kumar, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Sell et al., 2014)

About the journal

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