How to format your references using the Nature Reviews Endocrinology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Nature Reviews 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Velasquez-Manoff, M. Genetics: Relative risk. Nature 527, S116-7 (2015).

A journal article with 2 authors

Restuccia, D. F. & Hemmings, B. A. Cell signaling. Blocking Akt-ivity. Science 325, 1083–1084 (2009).

A journal article with 3 authors

Merlin, C., Gegear, R. J. & Reppert, S. M. Antennal circadian clocks coordinate sun compass orientation in migratory monarch butterflies. Science 325, 1700–1704 (2009).

A journal article with 6 or more authors

Zhou, J., Jia, W., Huang, C.-B. & Hess, R. F. The effect of unilateral mean luminance on binocular combination in normal and amblyopic vision. Sci. Rep. 3, 2012 (2013).

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

DiGrado, B. D. & Thorp, G. A. The Aboveground Steel Storage Tank Handbook. (John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2007).

An edited book

Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems: 13th International Conference, TACAS 2007, Held as Part of the Joint European Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software, ETAPS 2007 Braga, Portugal, March 24 - April 1, 2007. Proceedings. vol. 4424 (Springer, 2007).

A chapter in an edited book

Ricciardi, F. ICTs in an Ageing Society: An Overview of Emerging Research Streams. in Management of the Interconnected World: ItAIS: The Italian Association for Information Systems (eds. D’Atri, A., De Marco, M., Braccini, A. M. & Cabiddu, F.) 37–44 (Physica-Verlag HD, 2010).

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 Nature Reviews Endocrinology.

Blog post

Andrew, E. Dental Plaque Reveals Pre-Agriculture Plant Food For Humans. IFLScience https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/dental-plaque-reveals-pre-agriculture-plant-food-humans/ (2014).

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. Airport Finance: Information on Funding Sources and Planned Capital Development. (2015).

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Salie, A. Servant-minded leadership and work satisfaction in Islamic organizations: A correlational mixed study. (University of Phoenix, 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

Brantley, B. A ‘Hamlet’ Poised Between Two Worlds. New York Times C5 (2017).

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	Nature Reviews Endocrinology
Abbreviation	Nat. Rev. Endocrinol.
ISSN (print)	1759-5029
ISSN (online)	1759-5037
Scope	Endocrinology Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism