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

Koenig R (2000) COMPUTER SCIENCE: Flushing Out Nasty Viruses in the Balkans. Science 289:1863–1865

A journal article with 2 authors

Bintanja R, Selten FM (2014) Future increases in Arctic precipitation linked to local evaporation and sea-ice retreat. Nature 509:479–482

A journal article with 3 authors

Dornelas M, Connolly SR, Hughes TP (2006) Coral reef diversity refutes the neutral theory of biodiversity. Nature 440:80–82

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Diplas P, Dancey CL, Celik AO, et al (2008) The role of impulse on the initiation of particle movement under turbulent flow conditions. Science 322:717–720

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Schmidt P, Körber R, Coppers M (2003) Sieben und Siebmaschinen. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, FRG

An edited book

Poorten AJ van der, Stein A (2008) Algorithmic Number Theory: 8th International Symposium, ANTS-VIII Banff, Canada, May 17-22, 2008 Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Braun AG, Lettnin DV, Gerlach J, Rosenstiel W (2006) Automated Conversion of SystemC Fixed-Point Data Types. In: Glesner M, Reis R, Indrusiak L, et al (eds) VLSI-SOC: From Systems to Chips: IFIP TC 10/ WG 10.5 Twelfth International Conference on Very Large Scale Integration of System on Chip (VLSI-SoC 2003), December 1–3, 2003, Darmstadt, Germany. Springer US, Boston, MA, pp 55–72

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

Andrews R (2016) Six Ancient Legends That Are Based On Real Events. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/six-ancient-legends-that-are-based-on-real-events/. 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 (2000) Mass Transit: Challenges in Evaluating, Overseeing, and Funding Major Transit Projects. 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

Grigoryan A (2015) Feedback 2.0 in online writing instruction: Combining audio-visual and text-based commentary to enhance student revision and writing competency. Doctoral dissertation, Pepperdine University

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

Kelly J (2017) That Other Clinton. New York Times BR7

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