How to format your references using the European Journal of Endocrinology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for European Journal of Endocrinology. 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. Patching a leaky pipeline. Nature 2004 427 657.

A journal article with 2 authors

Fienberg SE & Prewitt K. Save your census. Nature 2010 466 1043.

A journal article with 3 authors

Farkas I, Helbing D, & Vicsek T. Mexican waves in an excitable medium. Nature 2002 419 131–132.

A journal article with 31 or more authors

Gierliński M, Middleton M, Ward M, & Done C. A periodicity of approximately 1 hour in X-ray emission from the active galaxy RE J1034+396. Nature 2008 455 369–371.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Chinesta F, Cescotto S, Cueto E, & Lorong P. Natural Element Method for the Simulation of Structures and Processes. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.,2013.

An edited book

Wannemacker SD, Clarebout G, & Causmaecker PD. Interdisciplinary Approaches to Adaptive Learning. A Look at the Neighbours: First International Conference on Interdisciplinary Research on Technology, Education and Communication, ITEC 2010, Kortrijk, Belgium, May 25-27, 2010, Revised Selected Papers. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer,2011.

A chapter in an edited book

Han D, Martínez-Gómez P, & Miyao Y. Syntax-Based Pre-reordering for Chinese-to-Japanese Statistical Machine Translation. In Hybrid Approaches to Machine Translation, pp 77–108. Eds Costa-jussà MR, Rapp R, Lambert P, Eberle K, Banchs RE, & Babych B. Cham: Springer International Publishing,2016.

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 European Journal of Endocrinology.

Blog post

Hale T. There Are Rumors That Russia Are Developing A Space-Cruising Nuclear Bomber. IFLScience2016.

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. Early Childhood Programs: Characteristics Affect the Availability of School Readiness Information. 2000.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Anderson MS. Integrating Emergency Medical Services Into the Patient-Centered Medical Home. 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

Brantley B. Hot for a Dairy Queen Sign. New York Times 2017 C1.

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, 2, 3, 4).

About the journal

Full journal title	European Journal of Endocrinology
Abbreviation	Eur. J. Endocrinol.
ISSN (print)	0804-4643
ISSN (online)	1479-683X
Scope	Endocrinology General Medicine Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism