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. Bowler PJ. Darwin’s Originality. Science. 2009;323:223–6.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Ikehara T, Kataoka T. Relation between the helical twist and S-shaped cross section of the lamellar crystals of polyethylene. Sci Rep. 2013;3:1444.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Ingle NJC, Beasley MR, Geballe TH. Superconductivity in a spin-ladder cuprate. Science. 2002;295:1967.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Zhu Y, Ghosh P, Charnay P, Burns DK, Parada LF. Neurofibromas in NF1: Schwann cell origin and role of tumor environment. Science. 2002;296:920–2.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Camarillo G, García-Martín MA. The 3G IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS). Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2006.

An edited book

1. Darling A, Stoye J, editors. Algorithms in Bioinformatics: 13th International Workshop, WABI 2013, Sophia Antipolis, France, September 2-4, 2013. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

1. He M, Lu T-M. Cu-Dielectric Interfaces. In: Lu T-M, editor. Metal-Dielectric Interfaces in Gigascale Electronics: Thermal and Electrical Stability. New York, NY: Springer; 2012. p. 57–74.

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. Nepal Earthquake: Such Huge Aftershocks Are Rare [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/nepal-earthquake-such-huge-aftershocks-are-rare/

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. Air Force ADP: Logistics Systems Modernization Costs Continue to Increase. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1988 Dec. Report No.: IMTEC-89-7FS.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Al-Kharafi HT. TF-CBT with the Pediatric Medical Population: A Modification [Doctoral dissertation]. [Malibu, CA]: Pepperdine 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. Kishkovsky S. EVERYWHERE, “IN HONOR OF THE 300TH.” New York Times. 2003 Apr 20;57.

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