How to format your references using the Steroids citation style

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

[1]

D. Gershon, Are mega-mergers good medicine for the pharmaceutical industry?, Nature 405 (2000) 257–258.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

M.I. Rosenberg, C. Desplan, Molecular biology. Hiding in plain sight, Science 329 (2010) 284–285.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

M.O. Casanueva, A. Burga, B. Lehner, Fitness trade-offs and environmentally induced mutation buffering in isogenic C. elegans, Science 335 (2012) 82–85.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

A. Agrawal, J. Lingappa, S.H. Leppla, S. Agrawal, A. Jabbar, C. Quinn, B. Pulendran, Impairment of dendritic cells and adaptive immunity by anthrax lethal toxin, Nature 424 (2003) 329–334.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

S. Ramamoorti, D.E. Morrison III, J.W. Koletar, K.R. Pope, A.B.C.’s of Behavioral Forensics, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2013.

An edited book

[1]

M. Kandouz, ed., Intercellular Communication in Cancer, 1st ed. 2015, Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

D.J. Benson, S. Iyengar, H. Krause, Thursday, in: S. Iyengar, H. Krause (Eds.), Representations of Finite Groups: Local Cohomology and Support, Springer, Basel, 2012: pp. 63–78.

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 Steroids.

Blog post

[1]

T. Hale, What’s The Most Common Surname In Different Countries Across The World?, IFLScience (2016). https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/whats-the-most-common-surname-in-different-countries-across-the-world/ (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

[1]

Government Accountability Office, IRS Management: Business and Systems Modernization Pose Challenges, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1999.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

S.A. Gilbert, Succession Planning Relating to the Millennial Generation in Private Four-Year Universities, Doctoral dissertation, Pepperdine University, 2017.

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

[1]

M. Schwirtz, Two Ex-Correction Officials Deny Clearing Trips to Maine, New York Times (2017) A19.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

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	Steroids
Abbreviation	Steroids
ISSN (print)	0039-128X
Scope	Biochemistry Clinical Biochemistry Endocrinology Molecular Biology Organic Chemistry Pharmacology