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

Neu, U. Is recent major hurricane activity normal? Nature 451, E5; discussion E6 (2008).

A journal article with 2 authors

Niessing, J. & Friedrich, R. W. Olfactory pattern classification by discrete neuronal network states. Nature 465, 47–52 (2010).

A journal article with 3 authors

Haince, J.-F., Rouleau, M. & Poirier, G. G. Transcription. Gene expression needs a break to unwind before carrying on. Science 312, 1752–1753 (2006).

A journal article with 6 or more authors

Shin, J.-S. et al. Surface expression of MHC class II in dendritic cells is controlled by regulated ubiquitination. Nature 444, 115–118 (2006).

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Corten, R. Computational Approaches to Studying the Co-evolution of Networks and Behavior in Social Dilemmas. (John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2014).

An edited book

Intelligent Computing Systems: First International Symposium, ISICS 2016, Mérida, México, March 16-18, 2016, Proceedings. vol. 597 (Springer International Publishing, 2016).

A chapter in an edited book

Öchsner, A. & Öchsner, M. Timoshenko Beams. in The Finite Element Analysis Program MSC Marc/Mentat: A First Introduction (ed. Öchsner, M.) 57–65 (Springer, 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

Fang, J. Test Confirms There’s a Huge Hot Bubble Of Gas Caused By A Supernova In Our Galaxy. IFLScience (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. DOD Information Technology: Software and Systems Process Improvement Programs Vary in Use of Best Practices. (2001).

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Adaligil, E. Electron transfer through self-assembled monolayers of alkaneselenols and alkanethiols on mercury electrode. (California State University, Long Beach, 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

Otis, J. Cancer Patient Is Hoping to Get Back to the Kitchen. New York Times A18 (2016).

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

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