How to format your references using the Journal of Clinical and Translational Endocrinology: Case Reports citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Clinical and Translational Endocrinology: Case Reports. 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

[1]

Smaglik P. Scientific personalities. Nature 2005;433:177.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Sitia R, Braakman I. Quality control in the endoplasmic reticulum protein factory. Nature 2003;426:891–4.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Ge D-Z, Sheng Y, Cai X. Combined staurosporine and retinoic acid induces differentiation in retinoic acid resistant acute promyelocytic leukemia cell lines. Sci Rep 2014;4:4821.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Thibert C, Teillet M-A, Lapointe F, Mazelin L, Le Douarin NM, Mehlen P. Inhibition of neuroepithelial patched-induced apoptosis by sonic hedgehog. Science 2003;301:843–6.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Tikhomirov VV. Hydrogeochemistry Fundamentals and Advances. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley &;#38; Sons, Inc.; 2016.

An edited book

[1]

Bell KM. Learn to Tango with D. Berkeley, CA: Apress; 2007.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Lee J, Yeo I, Kang WK, Song T-H. Analysis of Combined Heat Transfer Through Interstitial Materials of VIPs. In: Li A, Zhu Y, Li Y, editors. Proceedings of the 8th International Symposium on Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning: Volume 1: Indoor and Outdoor Environment, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2014, p. 41–9.

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 Journal of Clinical and Translational Endocrinology: Case Reports.

Blog post

[1]

Hale T. Irish Beach Reappears Within A Few Days After Disappearing 33 Years Ago. IFLScience 2017. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/irish-beach-reappears-within-a-few-days-after-disappearing-33-years-ago/ (accessed October 30, 2018).

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

[1]

Government Accountability Office. Briefing on Air Force’s Response on Fee-For-Service Aerial Refueling. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2009.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Bujarbarua V. Production Optimization Using an In-Situ Steam Generator in a Rejuvenated Heavy Oil Field. Doctoral dissertation. University of Louisiana, 2015.

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

[1]

Palmer E, Otis J. Lifting Hope, With Global Reach. New York Times 2017:A19.

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 [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Clinical and Translational Endocrinology: Case Reports
Abbreviation	J. Clin. Transl. Endocrinol. Case Rep.
ISSN (print)	2214-6245
Scope