How to format your references using the Frontiers in Thyroid Endocrinology citation style

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

Moore, D. D. (2007). Physiology. Sister act. Science 316, 1436–1438.

A journal article with 2 authors

Dietl, G. P., and Vermeij, G. J. (2006). Comment on “Statistical independence of escalatory ecological trends in Phanerozoic marine invertebrates.” Science 314, 925; author reply 925.

A journal article with 3 authors

Nir, E., Kleinermanns, K., and de Vries, M. S. (2000). Pairing of isolated nucleic-acid bases in the absence of the DNA backbone. Nature 408, 949–951.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Lee, S., Hwang, I., Oh, S., Hong, S., Kim, Y., Nam, Y., et al. (2014). Ultra-thin resistive switching oxide layers self-assembled by field-induced oxygen migration (FIOM) technique. Sci. Rep. 4, 6871.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Spiegel, R. (2005). Psychopharmacology. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Yang, J., Ginige, A., Mayr, H. C., and Kutsche, R.-D. eds. (2009). Information Systems: Modeling, Development, and Integration: Third International United Information Systems Conference, UNISCON 2009, Sydney, Australia, April 21-24, 2009. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Wilk, S., Michalowski, M., Tan, X., and Michalowski, W. (2014). “Using First-Order Logic to Represent Clinical Practice Guidelines and to Mitigate Adverse Interactions,” in Knowledge Representation for Health Care: 6th International Workshop, KR4HC 2014, held as part of the Vienna Summer of Logic, VSL 2014, Vienna, Austria, July 21, 2014. Revised Selected Papers, eds. S. Miksch, D. Riaño, and A. ten Teije (Cham: Springer International Publishing), 45–61.

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 Frontiers in Thyroid Endocrinology.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015). New Breathalyzer Device May One Day Diagnose Lung Cancer. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/new-breathalyzer-device-may-one-day-diagnose-lung-cancer/ (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 (2005). School Meal Programs: Competitive Foods Are Widely Available and Generate Substantial Revenues for Schools. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Magner, T. J. (2014). Performance and leadership in multiplayer online gaming. Malibu, CA: Pepperdine University.

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

Surico, J. (2017). The Film Festival in a Backyard. New York Times, MB3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Moore, 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Dietl and Vermeij, 2006; Moore, 2007).

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

Two authors: (Dietl and Vermeij, 2006)
Three or more authors: (Lee et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Frontiers in Thyroid Endocrinology
Abbreviation	Front. Endocrinol. (Lausanne)
ISSN (online)	1664-2392
Scope