How to format your references using the Endocrine Reviews citation style

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

Onnela J-PJP. Physics. Flow of control in networks. Science 2014;343(6177):1325–1326.

A journal article with 2 authors

Wang W, Yuan D. Mesoporous carbon originated from non-permanent porous MOFs for gas storage and CO2/CH4 separation. Sci. Rep. 2014;4:5711.

A journal article with 3 authors

Nam J-M, Thaxton CS, Mirkin CA. Nanoparticle-based bio-bar codes for the ultrasensitive detection of proteins. Science 2003;301(5641):1884–1886.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Mazloumian A, Helbing D, Lozano S, Light RP, Börner K. Global multi-level analysis of the “scientific food web.” Sci. Rep. 2013;3:1167.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

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

An edited book

Kipp M, Martin J-C, Paggio P, Heylen D, eds. Multimodal Corpora: From Models of Natural Interaction to Systems and Applications. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

Chaitankar V, Zhang C, Ghosh P, Gong P, Perkins EJ, Deng Y. Predictive Minimum Description Length Principle Approach to Inferring Gene Regulatory Networks. In: Arabnia HR, Tran Q-N, eds. Software Tools and Algorithms for Biological Systems. Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology. New York, NY: Springer; 2011:37–43.

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 Reviews.

Blog post

Andrew E. Publish Or Perish Culture Encourages Scientists To Cut Corners. 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

Government Accountability Office. Desegregation Activities: Administration of Education Grant Funds at the Cleveland School District. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1989.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Yasar K. Electrified voices: Media technology and discourse in modern Japan. 2009.

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

Feeney K. Irish Inspiration; French Twists. New York Times. May 9, 2010:NJ16.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in parentheses:

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	Endocrine Reviews
Abbreviation	Endocr. Rev.
ISSN (print)	0163-769X
ISSN (online)	1945-7189
Scope	Endocrinology Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism