How to format your references using the Neuroendocrinology Letters citation style

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

1 Ellis GFR (2005). Physics, complexity and causality. Nature. 435(7043): 743.

A journal article with 2 authors

1 Lazazzera BA & Hughes D (2015). Genetics: Location affects sporulation. Nature. 525(7567): 42–3.

A journal article with 3 authors

1 Cohen IG, Savulescu J & Adashi EY (2015). Medicine. Transatlantic lessons in regulation of mitochondrial replacement therapy. Science. 348(6231): 178–80.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1 Spengler D, van Roermund HLM, Drury MR, Ottolini L, Mason PRD & Davies GR (2006). Deep origin and hot melting of an Archaean orogenic peridotite massif in Norway. Nature. 440(7086): 913–7.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1 Gatarek D, Bachert P & Maksymiuk R (2007). The LIBOR Market Model in Practice. John Wiley & Sons Ltd: Oxford, UK.

An edited book

1 Berthod A, editor (2010). Chiral Recognition in Separation Methods: Mechanisms and Applications. Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

1 Velázquez A, Medina García C, Durán Medina E, Amador A & Gopar Merino LF (2016). The Inclusive Nature of SECLAVEMEX. In: C. Medina García, E. Durán Medina, A. Amador & L.F. Gopar Merino, editors. Standardized Hierarchical Vegetation Classification: Mexican and Global Patterns. Geobotany Studies,. Springer International Publishing: Cham. p. 57–73.

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 Letters.

Blog post

1 Taub B (2016). Humans’ Tendency To Murder Each Other May Be An Evolutionary Trait. IFLScience.

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

1 Government Accountability Office (2005). Financial Audit: The National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s Fiscal Year 2004 Management Representation Letter on Its Financial Statements. U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1 Harvey J (2017). Predicting Cost-Inflicting Mate Retention Tactic Use in Women with Borderline Personality Features: Examining the Roles of Maladaptive Schemas and Reactive Aggression. Southern Illinois University: Edwardsville, IL.

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

1 Burghardt LF (2006). An Animal Sanctuary Is Under Pressure to Move. New York Times: 14LI6.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Ellis 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Ellis 2005; Lazazzera & Hughes 2015).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Lazazzera & Hughes 2015)
Three or more authors: (Spengler et al. 2006)

About the journal

Full journal title	Neuroendocrinology Letters
ISSN (print)	0172-780X
ISSN (online)	2354-4716
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