How to format your references using the Current Opinion in Endocrinology, Diabetes and Obesity citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Current Opinion in Endocrinology, Diabetes and Obesity. 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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Ron D. Cell biology. Stressed cells cope with protein overload. Science 2006; 313:52–53.

A journal article with 2 authors

Calais E, Stein S. Time-variable deformation in the New Madrid seismic zone. Science 2009; 323:1442.

A journal article with 3 authors

Robison BH, Reisenbichler KR, Sherlock RE. Giant larvacean houses: rapid carbon transport to the deep sea floor. Science 2005; 308:1609–1611.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Roger T, Heitz JJF, Wright EM et al. Non-collinear interaction of photons with orbital angular momentum. Sci Rep 2013; 3:3491.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Rapaport H. The Literary Theory Toolkit. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2011.

An edited book

Clark PE. Remote Sensing Tools for Exploration: Observing and Interpreting the Electromagnetic Spectrum. New York, NY: Springer; 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

Chakraborty J, Bligh PL. Evaluation of Video Game Interfaces. In: Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction. Design for All and eInclusion: 6th International Conference, UAHCI 2011, Held as Part of HCI International 2011, Orlando, FL, USA, July 9-14, 2011, Proceedings, Part I. Edited by Stephanidis C (editor). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2011. pp. 30–35.

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 Current Opinion in Endocrinology, Diabetes and Obesity.

Blog post

Andrew E. What Does It Mean For Researchers, Journalists And The Public When Secrecy Surrounds Science? IFLScience 2016 https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/what-does-it-mean-researchers-journalists-and-public-when-secrecy-surrounds-science/ (30 October 2018, date last accessed).

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. Aviation Safety: FAA Can Be More Proactive in Promoting Aviation Safety. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1995.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Annan F. Spatial pattern of yield distributions: implications for crop insurance. 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

Hartocollis A. On Eve of Graduation, University of Chicago Student President May Face Expulsion. New York Times 2016 A11.

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 [1,2,3,4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Current Opinion in Endocrinology, Diabetes and Obesity
ISSN (print)	1752-296X
ISSN (online)	1752-2978
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