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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Neuroendocrinology (JNE). 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

Tittel W. Quantum physics: Teleportation for two. Nature. 2015;518:491–492.

A journal article with 2 authors

Ruocco G, Fratalocchi A. Period doubling induced by thermal noise amplification in genetic circuits. Sci Rep. 2014;4:7088.

A journal article with 3 authors

Wu JI, Crabtree GR, Crabtee GR. Cell signaling. Nuclear actin as choreographer of cell morphology and transcription. Science. 2007;316:1710–1711.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Guet CC, Elowitz MB, Hsing W, et al. Combinatorial synthesis of genetic networks. Science. 2002;296:1466–1470.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Beach GJ. The U.S. Technology Skills Gap. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2013.

An edited book

Katoen J-P, König B (eds). CONCUR 2011 – Concurrency Theory: 22nd International Conference, CONCUR 2011, Aachen, Germany, September 6-9, 2011. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

Redline RW. Placental Inflammation. In: Keeling JW, Khong TY (eds) Fetal and Neonatal Pathology. London: Springer, 2007, pp. 90–101.

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 Neuroendocrinology.

Blog post

Andrew E. Meditation may Alter Male and Female Brains Differently. IFLScience, https://www.iflscience.com/brain/meditation-may-alter-male-and-female-brains-differently/ (2015, accessed 30 October 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

Government Accountability Office. Aviation Security: Secure Flight Development and Testing Under Way, but Risks Should Be Managed as System Is Further Developed. GAO-05-356, Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 28 March 2005.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Hamilton SM. An Investigation of the Mass Balance of Oil and Gas Produced Versus Estimated Reserves Remaining within the A.W.P. Field, McMullen County, Texas. 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

Stewart JB. Major Hurdle in Tax Overhaul: The Breaks in Trump’s Own Field. New York Times, 22 April 2017, p. A1.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

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 Neuroendocrinology
ISSN (print)	0953-8194
ISSN (online)	1365-2826
Scope