How to format your references using the Pancreatology citation style

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

[1]

Tranquada JM. Physics. Cuprates get orders to charge. Science 2012;337:811–2.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Margot JL, Brown ME. A low-density M-type asteroid in the main belt. Science 2003;300:1939–42.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Mossinger J, White M, Goymer P. Coastal regions. Nature 2013;504:35.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Aten JA, Stap J, Krawczyk PM, van Oven CH, Hoebe RA, Essers J, et al. Dynamics of DNA double-strand breaks revealed by clustering of damaged chromosome domains. Science 2004;303:92–5.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Kula G, Raab M, Stahn S. Beyond Smart Beta. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2017.

An edited book

[1]

Ghorpade SR. A Course in Calculus and Real Analysis. New York, NY: Springer; 2006.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Swoboda B, Elsner S. What our Name Stands for: Retail Store Owners and their Employees in Store Flyer Advertising. In: Schramm-Klein H, Foscht T, Morschett D, Rudolph T, Schnedlitz P, Swoboda B, editors. European Retail Research: 2013, Volume 27, Issue I, Wiesbaden: Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden; 2014, p. 59–78.

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 Pancreatology.

Blog post

[1]

Davis J. Are Health And Fitness Apps Actually Good For You? IFLScience 2017.

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. Space Acquisitions: DOD Needs to Take More Action to Address Unrealistic Initial Cost Estimates of Space Systems. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2006.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Simmons CI. A Logistic Regression Analysis of Multiple Independent Variables Impacting Psychiatric Readmissions. Doctoral dissertation. Capella University, 2017.

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]

Gustines GG. Don’t Blame These Heroes for Slumping Sales. New York Times 2017:C1.

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	Pancreatology
Abbreviation	Pancreatology
ISSN (print)	1424-3903
Scope	Endocrinology Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism Hepatology