How to format your references using the Endocrine-Related Cancer citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Endocrine-Related Cancer. 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 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

Smaglik P 2004 Bricks & mortar. Nature 430 384.

A journal article with 2 authors

Nadeau JH & Dudley AM 2011 Genetics. Systems genetics. Science (New York, N.Y.) 331 1015–1016.

A journal article with 3 authors

Tsukahara T, Tanno Y & Watanabe Y 2010 Phosphorylation of the CPC by Cdk1 promotes chromosome bi-orientation. Nature 467 719–723.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Liénart S, Merceron R, Vanderaa C, Lambert F, Colau D, Stockis J, van der Woning B, De Haard H, Saunders M, Coulie PG et al. 2018 Structural basis of latent TGF-β1 presentation and activation by GARP on human regulatory T cells. Science (New York, N.Y.) 362 952–956.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bullard B 2016 Style and Statistics. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Gayar NE, Kittler J & Roli F 2010 Multiple Classifier Systems: 9th International Workshop, MCS 2010, Cairo, Egypt, April 7-9, 2010. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Vittal V & Ma F 2013 A Hybrid Dynamic Equivalent Using ANN-Based Boundary Matching Technique. In Power System Coherency and Model Reduction, pp 91–118. Ed JH Chow. New York, NY: Springer.

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 Endocrine-Related Cancer.

Blog post

Andrew D 2016 Mastery Over Mindset: The Cost Of Rolling Out A Chinese Way Of Teaching Maths. In IFLScience. IFLScience.

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 2014 Advanced Imaging Technology: TSA Needs Additional Information before Procuring Next-Generation Systems. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

CampBell PK 2012 Lenses of indigenous feminism: Digging up the roots of Western patriarchy in ‘Perma Red’ and ‘Monkey Beach’. Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona.

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

Grynbaum MM 2017 A Fox News Host Criticizes Trump, and Some Viewers Bristle. New York Times A16.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Smaglik 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Smaglik 2004; Nadeau & Dudley 2011).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Nadeau & Dudley 2011)
Three authors: (Tsukahara et al. 2010)
Four or more authors: (Liénart et al. 2018)

About the journal

Full journal title	Endocrine-Related Cancer
Abbreviation	Endocr. Relat. Cancer
ISSN (print)	1351-0088
ISSN (online)	1479-6821
Scope	Cancer Research Endocrinology Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism Oncology