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. Worlock DR. The best and worst of times. Nature. 2001;413:671.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Brockes JP, Kumar A. Appendage regeneration in adult vertebrates and implications for regenerative medicine. Science. 2005;310:1919–23.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Delamarre L, Mellman I, Yadav M. Cancer immunotherapy. Neo approaches to cancer vaccines. Science. 2015;348:760–1.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Siegel JB, Zanghellini A, Lovick HM, Kiss G, Lambert AR, St Clair JL, et al. Computational design of an enzyme catalyst for a stereoselective bimolecular Diels-Alder reaction. Science. 2010;329:309–13.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Epperlein PW. Semiconductor Laser Engineering, Reliability and Diagnostics. Oxford, UK: John Wiley & Sons Ltd; 2013.

An edited book

1. Bhowmick SS, Küng J, Wagner R, editors. Database and Expert Systems Applications: 19th International Conference, DEXA 2008, Turin, Italy, September 1-5, 2008. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2008.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Murthy DNP, Jack N. EWs/MSCs: An Overview. In: Jack N, editor. Extended Warranties, Maintenance Service and Lease Contracts: Modeling and Analysis for Decision-Making. London: Springer; 2014. p. 91–125.

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. Lead Pollution Got To The South Pole Before We Did [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2014 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/lead-pollution-got-south-pole-we-did/

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. Test and Evaluation: Description of Projects in DOD’s Central Test and Evaluation Investment Program. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1991 May. Report No.: NSIAD-91-111S.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Jozwiak AL. Social work internship stipend program: A grant proposal [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 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. Pilon M. Earning a Royal Silver, as Britain Continues Its Wait for a Gold. New York Times. 2012 Aug 1;B13.

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

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