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

Overbaugh, J. 24/7 isn’t the only way: A healthy work-life balance can enhance research. Nature 477, 27–28 (2011).

A journal article with 2 authors

Malone, J. H. & Michalak, P. Physiological sex predicts hybrid sterility regardless of genotype. Science 319, 59 (2008).

A journal article with 3 authors

Nam, K. H., Park, I. H. & Ko, S. H. Patterning by controlled cracking. Nature 485, 221–224 (2012).

A journal article with 6 or more authors

Katsani, K. R. et al. Functional genomics evidence unearths new moonlighting roles of outer ring coat nucleoporins. Sci. Rep. 4, 4655 (2014).

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

da Silva, L. S., Simões, R. & Gervásio, H. Design of Steel Structures. (Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH, D-69451 Weinheim, Germany, 2014).

An edited book

Chen, M. System-Level Validation: High-Level Modeling and Directed Test Generation Techniques. (Springer, New York, NY, 2013).

A chapter in an edited book

Cress, U., Feinkohl, I., Jirschitzka, J. & Kimmerle, J. Mass Collaboration as Coevolution of Cognitive and Social Systems. in Mass Collaboration and Education (eds. Cress, U., Moskaliuk, J. & Jeong, H.) 85–104 (Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2016).

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. Scientists Discover How Mantis Shrimp Claws Balance Form And Function. IFLScience https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/scientists-discover-how-mantis-shrimp-claws-balance-form-and-functio/ (2015).

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. Space Operations: Testing of NASA’s Technical and Management Information System. (1988).

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Tercero, N. Characterization and application of morpholino monolayers in nucleic acid diagnostics. (Columbia University, New York, NY, 2010).

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

Kenigsberg, B. Moscow Never Sleeps. New York Times C9 (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