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:

PaperpileThe citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNoteFind the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and othersThe style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeXBibTeX 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
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Covington, W. W. Helping western forests heal. Nature 408, 135–136 (2000).
A journal article with 2 authors
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Boyet, M. & Carlson, R. W. 142Nd evidence for early (>4.53 Ga) global differentiation of the silicate Earth. Science 309, 576–581 (2005).
A journal article with 3 authors
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Ganesh, G., Osu, R. & Naito, E. Feeling the force: returning haptic signals influence effort inference during motor coordination. Sci. Rep. 3, 2648 (2013).
A journal article with 6 or more authors
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Arendt, D., Tessmar-Raible, K., Snyman, H., Dorresteijn, A. W. & Wittbrodt, J. Ciliary photoreceptors with a vertebrate-type opsin in an invertebrate brain. Science 306, 869–871 (2004).

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
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Stacey, W. M. Fusion Plasma Physics. (Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany, 2012).
An edited book
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Chen, S.-J. Reconfigurable Networks-on-Chip. (Springer, New York, NY, 2012).
A chapter in an edited book
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Zegarra, J. & Farcy, R. GPS and Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) as a Navigation System for the Visually Impaired. in Computers Helping People with Special Needs: 13th International Conference, ICCHP 2012, Linz, Austria, July 11-13, 2012, Proceedings, Part II (eds. Miesenberger, K., Karshmer, A., Penaz, P. & Zagler, W.) 29–32 (Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2012).

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
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Hale, T. Watch A 24/7 Live Steam Of A Bear Haven In Alaska. IFLScience (2016).

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
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Government Accountability Office. Financial Management Systems: Additional Efforts Needed to Address Key Causes of Modernization Failures. (2006).

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation
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Slotterback, D. Parent Partner Program and Organization (3P-O) parents mentoring parents in child welfare: A grant-writing project. (California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA, 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
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Davey, M. & Walsh, M. W. Chicago Sees Pension Crisis Drawing Near. New York Times A1 (2013).

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 titleNature Reviews Endocrinology
AbbreviationNat. Rev. Endocrinol.
ISSN (print)1759-5029
ISSN (online)1759-5037
ScopeEndocrinology
Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism

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