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

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

Zahnle K 2001 Decline and fall of the empire. Nature 412 209–213.

A journal article with 2 authors

Yuan H & Romanowicz B 2010 Lithospheric layering in the North American craton. Nature 466 1063–1068.

A journal article with 3 authors

Risk JM, Macknight RC & Day CL 2008 FCA does not bind abscisic acid. Nature 456 E5-6.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Tian P, Keusters D, Suzaki Y & Warren WS 2003 Femtosecond phase-coherent two-dimensional spectroscopy. Science (New York, N.Y.) 300 1553–1555.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Källén A 2011 Understanding Biostatistics. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Azarnoosh M, Zeraatpishe M, Faravani A & Kargozari HR 2016 Issues in Materials Development. Rotterdam: SensePublishers.

A chapter in an edited book

Russell B & Brubaker L 2008 Muscle Function and Ageing. In Pelvic Floor Re-Education: Principles and Practice, pp 49–61. Eds K Baessler, KL Burgio, PA Norton, B Schüssler, KH Moore & SL Stanton. London: 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 Journal of Endocrinology.

Blog post

Andrews R 2017 Republicans Set To Sell Off 3.3 Million Acres Of Public Land. 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 1999 Commercial Maritime Industry: Supplemental Information on Federal Assessments. 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

Koester A 2017 It All Started on a Lake. Edwardsville, IL: Southern Illinois University.

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

Vecsey G 2010 Nation of Individuals Sees Tennis Identity Fade. New York Times B13.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Zahnle 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Zahnle 2001; Yuan & Romanowicz 2010).

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

Two authors: (Yuan & Romanowicz 2010)
Three authors: (Risk et al. 2008)
Four or more authors: (Tian et al. 2003)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Endocrinology
Abbreviation	J. Endocrinol.
ISSN (print)	0022-0795
ISSN (online)	1479-6805
Scope	Endocrinology Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism