How to format your references using the Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology citation style

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

Macilwain, C., 2000. Ocean researchers dive to deep-sea stations. Nature 406, 449.

A journal article with 2 authors

Shekhawat, G.S., Dravid, V.P., 2005. Nanoscale imaging of buried structures via scanning near-field ultrasound holography. Science 310, 89–92.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kayukawa, T., Tateishi, K., Shinoda, T., 2013. Establishment of a versatile cell line for juvenile hormone signaling analysis in Tribolium castaneum. Sci. Rep. 3, 1570.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Hiratsuka, T., Furihata, K., Ishikawa, J., Yamashita, H., Itoh, N., Seto, H., Dairi, T., 2008. An alternative menaquinone biosynthetic pathway operating in microorganisms. Science 321, 1670–1673.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Reiss, E., Shadomy, H.J., Lyon, G.M., III, 2011. Fundamental Medical Mycology. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Sadler, T.D. (Ed.), 2011. Socio-scientific Issues in the Classroom: Teaching, Learning and Research, Contemporary Trends and Issues in Science Education. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht.

A chapter in an edited book

Strang, J., 2010. Theoria and Logical Empiricism On the tensions between the National and the International in Philosophy, in: Manninen, J., Stadler, F. (Eds.), The Vienna Circle in the Nordic Countries, Vienna Circle Institute Yearbook. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp. 69–89.

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 Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology.

Blog post

Luntz, S., 2017. PG-13 Films More Violent Than R-Rated Movies [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/brain/pg13-films-more-violent-than-rrated-movies/ (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, 2008. Space Acquisitions: Major Space Programs Still at Risk for Cost and Schedule Increases (No. GAO-08-552T). 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

Chen, X.S., 2017. Social Support Communication Behavior, Anxiety Symptomatology, and Marital Satisfaction Among Distressed Couples (Doctoral dissertation). Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA.

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

Whiteside, K., 2017. Trying to Find a Sneaker Named For a W.N.B.A. Star? Keep Looking. New York Times B7.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Macilwain, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Macilwain, 2000; Shekhawat and Dravid, 2005).

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

Two authors: (Shekhawat and Dravid, 2005)
Three or more authors: (Hiratsuka et al., 2008)

About the journal

Full journal title	Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology
Abbreviation	Mol. Cell. Endocrinol.
ISSN (print)	0303-7207
Scope	Biochemistry Endocrinology Molecular Biology