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 Marx V (2014). Cell communication: stop the microbial chatter. Nature. 511(7510): 493–7.

A journal article with 2 authors

1 Duggavathi R & Murphy BD (2009). Development. Ovulation signals. Science. 324(5929): 890–1.

A journal article with 3 authors

1 Ibarra RU, Edwards JS & Palsson BO (2002). Escherichia coli K-12 undergoes adaptive evolution to achieve in silico predicted optimal growth. Nature. 420(6912): 186–9.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1 Baumberger F, Auwärter W, Greber T & Osterwalder J (2004). Electron coherence in a melting lead monolayer. Science. 306(5705): 2221–4.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1 Chartered Institute of Building (2016). Code of Practice for Programme Management in the Built Environment. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd: Chichester, UK.

An edited book

1 Childs JE, Mackenzie JS & Richt JA, editors (2007). Wildlife and Emerging Zoonotic Diseases: The Biology, Circumstances and Consequences of Cross-Species Transmission. Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

1 Babushkina D (2016). F.H. Bradley’s Conception of the Moral Self: A New Reading. In: W.J. Mander & S. Panagakou, editors. British Idealism and the Concept of the Self. Palgrave Macmillan UK: London. p. 67–87.

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 Andrew E (2015). Premature Babies May Have A Higher Risk Of Developing Autism. 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 (1999). Federal Research Grants: Compensation Paid to Graduate Students at the University of California. 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 Moore BA (2010). The Writing Machine. California State University, Long Beach: Long Beach, CA.

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 Wyatt E & Walsh MW (2012). For Flood Victims, Another Blow Is Possible. New York Times: B1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Marx 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Duggavathi & Murphy 2009; Marx 2014).

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

Two authors: (Duggavathi & Murphy 2009)
Three or more authors: (Baumberger et al. 2004)

About the journal

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