How to format your references using the Molecular Endocrinology citation style

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

Miralda-Escudé J. Cosmology. Probing matter at the lowest densities. Science 2001;293(5532):1055–1056.

A journal article with 2 authors

Thompson PM, Ollason JC. Lagged effects of ocean climate change on fulmar population dynamics. Nature 2001;413(6854):417–420.

A journal article with 3 authors

Moyen J-F, Stevens G, Kisters A. Record of mid-Archaean subduction from metamorphism in the Barberton terrain, South Africa. Nature 2006;442(7102):559–562.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Yang Y, Fu Z, Su Y, Zhang X, Li G, Guo J, Que Y, Xu L. A cytosolic glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase gene, ScG6PDH, plays a positive role in response to various abiotic stresses in sugarcane. Sci. Rep. 2014;4:7090.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bahgat G. Energy Security. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2011.

An edited book

Bleiklie I, Henkel M, eds. Governing Knowledge: A Study of Continuity and Change in Higher Education A Festschrift in Honour of Maurice Kogan. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

Kozioł A. E-mail, Facebook, and Mobile Phones as Essential Tools for Lower Secondary School Students’ Communication. In: Piasecka L, Adams-Tukiendorf M, Wilk P, eds. New Media and Perennial Problems in Foreign Language Learning and Teaching. Second Language Learning and Teaching. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015:73–90.

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 Endocrinology.

Blog post

Hale T. The Video Of Tigers Chasing A Drone Really Isn’t As Cool As You Think. IFLScience 2017. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/the-video-of-tigers-chasing-a-drone-really-isnt-as-cool-as-you-think/. Accessed October 30, 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. Surface Transportation: The Department of Transportation Proposes Significant Changes to Its Automated Highway System Program. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1997.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Skiold-Hanlin S. Functional and Ecological Aspects of the Mucus Trails of the Freshwater Gastropod Elimia potosiensis. 2015.

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. Clinton Delays Trip To Work, Pack Up And Fill More Jobs. New York Times. December 29, 1992:A10.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in parentheses:

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	Molecular Endocrinology
Abbreviation	Mol. Endocrinol.
ISSN (print)	0888-8809
ISSN (online)	1944-9917
Scope	Endocrinology Molecular Biology General Medicine