How to format your references using the Reviews in Endocrine and Metabolic Disorders citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Reviews in Endocrine and Metabolic Disorders. 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. Smith R. Making hard light sharper. Nature. 2000;404:345, 347.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Sanderson WC, Scherbov S. Average remaining lifetimes can increase as human populations age. Nature. 2005;435:811–3.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Childers SE, Ciufo S, Lovley DR. Geobacter metallireducens accesses insoluble Fe(III) oxide by chemotaxis. Nature. 2002;416:767–9.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Feng M, Lu Y, Yang Y, Zhang M, Xu Y-J, Gao H-L, et al. Bioinspired greigite magnetic nanocrystals: chemical synthesis and biomedicine applications. Sci Rep. 2013;3:2994.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Simon P, Brousse T, Favier F. Supercapacitors Based on Carbon or Pseudocapacitive Materials. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2017.

An edited book

1. Celi M, editor. Advanced Design Cultures: Long-Term Perspective and Continuous Innovation. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Akbari CM. Clinical Features and Diagnosis of Peripheral Arterial Disease. In: Veves A, Giurini JM, LoGerfo FW, editors. The Diabetic Foot: Medical and Surgical Management. Totowa, NJ: Humana Press; 2012. p. 75–85.

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 Reviews in Endocrine and Metabolic Disorders.

Blog post

1. Andrew E. We Could Find Alien Life, But Politicians Don’t Have The Will [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2014 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/we-could-find-alien-life-politicians-dont-have-will/

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. Year 2000 Computing Crisis: Status of Bureau of Prisons’ Year 2000 Efforts. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1999 Jan. Report No.: AIMD-99-23.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Smith T. Outsider leadership transitions: A phenomenological study of Army Reserve General Officers [Doctoral dissertation]. [Phoenix, AZ]: University of Phoenix; 2012.

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. Yablonsky L. A Vote for Small. New York Times. 2012 Sep 2;ST3.

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	Reviews in Endocrine and Metabolic Disorders
Abbreviation	Rev. Endocr. Metab. Disord.
ISSN (print)	1389-9155
ISSN (online)	1573-2606
Scope	Endocrinology Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism