How to format your references using the Molecular Endocrinology citation style

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

Cassou C. Intraseasonal interaction between the Madden-Julian Oscillation and the North Atlantic Oscillation. Nature 2008;455(7212):523–527.

A journal article with 2 authors

May M, Brody H. Nature index 2015 Asia-Pacific. Nature 2015;519(7544):S49.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kislev ME, Hartmann A, Bar-Yosef O. Early domesticated fig in the Jordan Valley. Science 2006;312(5778):1372–1374.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Mandel MJ, Wollenberg MS, Stabb EV, Visick KL, Ruby EG. A single regulatory gene is sufficient to alter bacterial host range. Nature 2009;458(7235):215–218.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Pachamanova DA, Fabozzi FJ. Simulation and Optimization in Finance. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2010.

An edited book

Yung M, Zhu L, Yang Y, eds. Trusted Systems: 6th International Conference, INTRUST 2014, Beijing, China, December 16-17, 2014, Revised Selected Papers. 1st ed. 2015. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

Slater T. The Neoliberal State and the 2011 English Riots: A Class Analysis. In: Mayer M, Thörn C, Thörn H, eds. Urban Uprisings: Challenging Neoliberal Urbanism in Europe. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK; 2016:121–148.

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 Endocrinology.

Blog post

Hale T. The Hilarious Winners Of The Comedy Wildlife Photo Awards 2016. IFLScience 2016. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/the-hilarious-winners-of-the-comedy-wildlife-photo-awards-2016/. 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

Government Accountability Office. Issues Concerning the Future Operation of the Space Transportation System. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1982.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

McCallister K. I Didn’t Mean to Show the Dirt. 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

Bernstein N. Bodies Given to N.Y.U. Sent to Mass Graves. New York Times. May 27, 2016:A1.

In-text citations

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

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	Molecular Endocrinology
Abbreviation	Mol. Endocrinol.
ISSN (print)	0888-8809
ISSN (online)	1944-9917
Scope	Endocrinology Molecular Biology General Medicine