How to format your references using the General and Comparative Endocrinology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for General and Comparative 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

Leggett, A.J., 2002. Physics. Superconducting qubits--a major roadblock dissolved? Science 296, 861–862.

A journal article with 2 authors

Giessen, H., Vogelgesang, R., 2009. Physics. Glimpsing the weak magnetic field of light. Science 326, 529–530.

A journal article with 3 authors

Stebe, K.J., Lewandowski, E., Ghosh, M., 2009. Materials science. Oriented assembly of metamaterials. Science 325, 159–160.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Paulot, F., Crounse, J.D., Kjaergaard, H.G., Kürten, A., St Clair, J.M., Seinfeld, J.H., Wennberg, P.O., 2009. Unexpected epoxide formation in the gas-phase photooxidation of isoprene. Science 325, 730–733.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Janke, S.J., Tinsley, F.C., 2005. Introduction to Linear Models and Statistical Inference. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Busch, P., 2016. Quantum Measurement, Theoretical and Mathematical Physics. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Bourgain, J., 2014. An Improved Estimate in the Restricted Isometry Problem, in: Klartag, B., Milman, E. (Eds.), Geometric Aspects of Functional Analysis: Israel Seminar (GAFA) 2011-2013, Lecture Notes in Mathematics. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 65–70.

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 General and Comparative Endocrinology.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2015. Nearby Exoplanet’s Hellish Atmosphere Measured [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/space/nearby-exoplanets-hellish-atmosphere-measured/ (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 1993. Aviation Safety: FAA Can Better Prepare General Aviation Pilots for Mountain Flying Risks (No. RCED-94-15). U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Filomena, T.P., 2010. Technology portfolio and capacity expansion under uncertainty (Doctoral dissertation). George Washington University, Washington, DC.

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

de la MERCED, M.J., 2017. Activist Hedge Fund Picks A New Target: ComScore. New York Times B3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Leggett, 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Giessen and Vogelgesang, 2009; Leggett, 2002).

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

Two authors: (Giessen and Vogelgesang, 2009)
Three or more authors: (Paulot et al., 2009)

About the journal

Full journal title	General and Comparative Endocrinology
Abbreviation	Gen. Comp. Endocrinol.
ISSN (print)	0016-6480
Scope	Endocrinology