How to format your references using the Steroids citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Steroids. 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	Download the output style file
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]

M.R. Payne, Fisheries: climate change at the dinner table, Nature 497 (2013) 320–321.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

D.R. Begun, C.V. Ward, Comment on “Pierolapithecus catalaunicus, a new Middle Miocene great ape from Spain,” Science 308 (2005) 203; author reply 203.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

W. Lutz, W. Sanderson, S. Scherbov, The coming acceleration of global population ageing, Nature 451 (2008) 716–719.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

F. Bai, Y.V. Morimoto, S.D.J. Yoshimura, N. Hara, N. Kami-Ike, K. Namba, T. Minamino, Assembly dynamics and the roles of FliI ATPase of the bacterial flagellar export apparatus, Sci. Rep. 4 (2014) 6528.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

H. McCallum, Population Parameters: Estimation for Ecological Models, Blackwell Science Ltd, Oxford, UK, 2008.

An edited book

[1]

R. Azziz, ed., The Polycystic Ovary Syndrome: Current Concepts On Pathogenesis And Clinical Care, Springer US, Boston, MA, 2007.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

P.H. Shah, R.C. Batra, Effect of Covalent Functionalization on Young’s Modulus of a Single-Wall Carbon Nanotube, in: K.I. Tserpes, N. Silvestre (Eds.), Modeling of Carbon Nanotubes, Graphene and Their Composites, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2014: pp. 111–134.

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 Steroids.

Blog post

[1]

J. O`Callaghan, Non-Magnetic Metals Turned Magnetic In Groundbreaking Research, IFLScience (2015).

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, Elementary School Children: Many Change Schools Frequently, Harming Their Education, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1994.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

S.L. Olsen, A Year of Sin An Experiential Exhibition of Sin, Doctoral dissertation, George Washington 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]

E. St. John Kelly, PLAYING IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD, New York Times (1994) 139.

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	Steroids
Abbreviation	Steroids
ISSN (print)	0039-128X
Scope	Biochemistry Clinical Biochemistry Endocrinology Molecular Biology Organic Chemistry Pharmacology