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

Marx V. Cancer: A most exceptional response. Nature 2015;520(7547):389–393.

A journal article with 2 authors

Curry Rogers K, Forster CA. The last of the dinosaur titans: a new sauropod from Madagascar. Nature 2001;412(6846):530–534.

A journal article with 3 authors

O’Connor S, Ono R, Clarkson C. Pelagic fishing at 42,000 years before the present and the maritime skills of modern humans. Science 2011;334(6059):1117–1121.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Li Y-Y, Wang L-S, Lu X-Z, Yang Z-J, Wang X-M, Zhou C-W, Xu J, Qian Y, Chen A-L. CDKAL1 gene rs7756992 A/G polymorphism and type 2 diabetes mellitus: a meta-analysis of 62,567 subjects. Sci. Rep. 2013;3:3131.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ponniah P. Data Warehousing Fundamentals for it Professionals. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2010.

An edited book

Malyshkin V, ed. Parallel Computing Technologies: 13th International Conference, PaCT 2015, Petrozavodsk, Russia, August 31-September 4, 2015, Proceedings. 1st ed. 2015. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

Mauroy B. 3D Hydrodynamics in the Upper Human Bronchial Tree: Interplay between Geometry and Flow Distribution. In: Losa GA, Merlini D, Nonnenmacher TF, Weibel ER, eds. Fractals in Biology and Medicine. Mathematics and Biosciences in Interaction. Basel: Birkhäuser; 2005:43–53.

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

Andrew D. 5 Of The Biggest Myths And Misconceptions About Zika, Debunked. IFLScience 2016. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/5-of-the-biggest-myths-and-misconceptions-about-zika-debunked/. 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. Aviation Workforce: Current and Future Availability of Airline Pilots. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2014.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

O’Byrne SM. Metabolic and pathological role of retinyl esters: The role of lecithin:retinol acyl transferase, (LRAT). 2008.

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

Kanter J. U.S. Briefs E.U. on Fears Over Laptops on Flights. New York Times. May 18, 2017:A17.

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