How to format your references using the Pituitary citation style

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

Ueda K (2008) Chemistry. To be or not to be localized. Science 320:884–885

A journal article with 2 authors

Martinez LM, Angell CA (2001) A thermodynamic connection to the fragility of glass-forming liquids. Nature 410:663–667

A journal article with 3 authors

Cochran WW, Mouritsen H, Wikelski M (2004) Migrating songbirds recalibrate their magnetic compass daily from twilight cues. Science 304:405–408

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Hopkins BD, Pauli C, Du X, et al (2018) Suppression of insulin feedback enhances the efficacy of PI3K inhibitors. Nature 560:499–503

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Carter M, Bentley SP (2016) Soil Properties and their Correlations. John Wiley &;#38; Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Duplantier B, Rivasseau V (2015) Henri Poincaré, 1912–2012: Poincaré Seminar 2012. Springer, Basel

A chapter in an edited book

Sierksma G, Ghosh D (2010) Minimum Spanning Trees. In: Ghosh D (ed) Networks in Action: Text and Computer Exercises in Network Optimization. Springer US, Boston, MA, pp 37–60

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 Pituitary.

Blog post

Davis J (2015) Risk Of Cancer Increases With Height. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/risk-cancer-increases-height/. Accessed 30 Oct 2018

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 (1974) Problems And Progress Of The U.S. Army Materiel Command’s Automated Data Processing Service Center Concept. 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

George KA (2014) Housing adequacy and civic engagement in Los Angeles County. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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

Leland J (2017) Roz Chast Is New Yorkier Than You. New York Times MB1

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	Pituitary
Abbreviation	Pituitary
ISSN (print)	1386-341X
ISSN (online)	1573-7403
Scope	Endocrinology Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism