How to format your references using the VideoEndocrinology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for VideoEndocrinology. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Malakoff D. NUCLEAR SECURITY: Los Alamos Under Siege After Secrets Recovered. Science 2000;288(5474):2109a–10a.

A journal article with 2 authors

Lively CM, Dybdahl MF. Parasite adaptation to locally common host genotypes. Nature 2000;405(6787):679–681.

A journal article with 3 authors

Ishishita S, Matsuda Y, Kitada K. Genetic evidence suggests that Spata22 is required for the maintenance of Rad51 foci in mammalian meiosis. Sci Rep 2014;4:6148.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Aubert J, Amit H, Hulot G, et al. Thermochemical flows couple the Earth’s inner core growth to mantle heterogeneity. Nature 2008;454(7205):758–761.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ziska LH, Dukes JS. Weed Biology and Climate Change. Wiley-Blackwell: Oxford, UK; 2010.

An edited book

Leong SPL, Kitagawa Y, Kitajima M, (eds). Selective Sentinel Lymphadenectomy for Human Solid Cancer. Cancer Treatment and Research. Springer US: Boston, MA; 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

Maleszka M, Nguyen NT. A Model for Complex Tree Integration Tasks. In: Intelligent Information and Database Systems: Third International Conference, ACIIDS 2011, Daegu, Korea, April 20-22, 2011, Proceedings, Part I. (Nguyen NT, Kim C-G, Janiak A. eds). Lecture Notes in Computer Science Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg; 2011; pp. 36–46.

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 VideoEndocrinology.

Blog post

Andrew E. Of Cats And Cliffs: The Ethical Dilemmas Of The Driverless Car. IFLScience; 2015. [Last accessed: 10/30/2018].

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. Technology Transfer: NNSA Did Not Implement the Technology Infrastructure Pilot Program. U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC; 2002.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Mahiko J. Community Connections: Supporting Rural Youth with Disabilities Who Are Work-Bound. Doctoral dissertation. Capella University: Minneapolis, MN; 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

Wallace N. The Minivan vs. the Maserati. New York Times 2016;A27.

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	VideoEndocrinology
ISSN (online)	2329-9738
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