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

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

Zaanen J 2009 Physics. Fast electrons tie quantum knots. Science (New York, N.Y.) 323 888–890.

A journal article with 2 authors

Wu Y & Marsh JW 2001 Selective transcription and modulation of resting T cell activity by preintegrated HIV DNA. Science (New York, N.Y.) 293 1503–1506.

A journal article with 3 authors

Howes PD, Chandrawati R & Stevens MM 2014 Bionanotechnology. Colloidal nanoparticles as advanced biological sensors. Science (New York, N.Y.) 346 1247390.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Chiara CJ, Carroll JJ, Carpenter MP, Greene JP, Hartley DJ, Janssens RVF, Lane GJ, Marsh JC, Matters DA, Polasik M et al. 2018 Isomer depletion as experimental evidence of nuclear excitation by electron capture. Nature 554 216–218.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Fleming P & Lee R 2016 Orthodontic Functional Appliances. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Condello A & Lehmann S 2016 Sustainable Lina: Lina Bo Bardi’s Adaptive Reuse Projects. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Hall KSK 2016 Multicultural Sensitivity in the Treatment of Sexual Dysfunction. In Management of Sexual Dysfunction in Men and Women: An Interdisciplinary Approach, pp 25–29. Eds LI Lipshultz, AW Pastuszak, AT Goldstein, A Giraldi & MA Perelman. New York, NY: 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 Molecular Endocrinology.

Blog post

O`Callaghan J 2017 What Would Happen If The International Space Station Was Hit By A Meteoroid? 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 1995 Federal Research: Lessons Learned from the Pilot Technology Access Program. 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

Tromp M 2015 Bayesian monitoring of clinical trials: Examples using conjugate priors. Long Beach, CA: California State University, Long Beach.

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

St. John Kelly E 1993 PLAYING IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD. New York Times 1321.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Zaanen 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Wu & Marsh 2001; Zaanen 2009).

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

Two authors: (Wu & Marsh 2001)
Three authors: (Howes et al. 2014)
Four or more authors: (Chiara et al. 2018)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Molecular Endocrinology
Abbreviation	J. Mol. Endocrinol.
ISSN (print)	0952-5041
ISSN (online)	1479-6813
Scope	Endocrinology Molecular Biology