How to format your references using the Neuroendocrinology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Neuroendocrinology. 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

Bocquet-Appel J-P. When the world’s population took off: the springboard of the Neolithic Demographic Transition. Science. 2011 Jul;333(6042):560–1.

A journal article with 2 authors

Buckley SA, Evershed RP. Organic chemistry of embalming agents in Pharaonic and Graeco-Roman mummies. Nature. 2001 Oct;413(6858):837–41.

A journal article with 3 authors

Zhao J, Goldman AS, Hartwig JF. Oxidative addition of ammonia to form a stable monomeric amido hydride complex. Science. 2005 Feb;307(5712):1080–2.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

He Y, Li H, Jiang Y, Li X, Bian X. Liquid-liquid phase transition and structure inheritance in carbon films. Sci Rep. 2014 Jan;4:3635.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bécherrawy T. Mechanical and Electromagnetic Vibrations and Waves. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc; 2012.

An edited book

Slobounov S, Sebastianelli W, editors. Foundations of Sport-Related Brain Injuries. Boston, MA: Springer US; 2006.

A chapter in an edited book

Borwein JM, Burachik RS, Yao L. Monotone Operators Without Enlargements. In: Bailey DH, Bauschke HH, Borwein P, Garvan F, Théra M, Vanderwerff JD, et al., editors. Computational and Analytical Mathematics: In Honor of Jonathan Borwein’s 60th Birthday. New York, NY: Springer; 2013; pp 79–103.

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 Neuroendocrinology.

Blog post

Fang J. Why Do Dolphins and Whales Still Have Pelvic Bones? To Please the Ladies [Internet]. IFLScience. 2014 Sep [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/why-do-dolphins-and-whales-still-have-pelvic-bones-please-ladies/

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. Student Attrition at the Five Federal Service Academies. Enclosure B: Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1976.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Shamloo Aliabadi E. The effect of distortion on trajectory of diesel Particulate Matters (PM) from mobile sources. 2013

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

Werdigier J. BP Says Talks With Venture Investors Continue. New York Times. 2008 Jun;C2.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

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	Neuroendocrinology
Abbreviation	Neuroendocrinology
ISSN (print)	0028-3835
ISSN (online)	1423-0194
Scope	Endocrinology Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience Endocrine and Autonomic Systems