The writer appears to be getting to know Endnote's referencing scheme: 
The negative tone of this comment is completely unnecessary. As noted above, and by the editor, as part of the special issue, we used Authorea to import references. Before submission, we even checked through the BibTeX data for accuracy, since the platform is new to us. We have changed the format for our Authorea export, but leave the formatting of references to the capable hands of the IJQC editorial and production team.