How to format your references using the Thrombosis Journal citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Thrombosis Journal. 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. Abbott A. Hunt for Higgs particle wins time for CERN collider. Nature. 2000;407:276.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Gillett NP, Thompson DWJ. Simulation of recent southern hemisphere climate change. Science. 2003;302:273–5.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Balser DS, Rood RT, Bania TM. Comment on “Deep mixing of 3He: reconciling Big Bang and stellar nucleosynthesis.” Science. 2007;317:1170.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Ahn CH, Senthil K, Cho HK, Lee SY. Artificial semiconductor/insulator superlattice channel structure for high-performance oxide thin-film transistors. Sci Rep. 2013;3:2737.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. American Institute of Timber Constr. Timber Construction Manual. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2012.

An edited book

1. Seegenschmiedt MH, Makoski H-B, Trott K-R, Brady LW, editors. Radiotherapy for Non-Malignant Disorders. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2008.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Li J, Huang S. Estimating Array Connectivity and Applying Multi-output Node Structure in Evolutionary Design of Digital Circuits. In: Kang L, Liu Y, Zeng S, editors. Evolvable Systems: From Biology to Hardware: 7th International Conference, ICES 2007, Wuhan, China, September 21-23, 2007 Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2007. p. 45–56.

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 Thrombosis Journal.

Blog post

1. Carpineti A. Meteorites Might Destroy Evidence Of Life On Mars. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016.

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. Issues That Need to Be Considered in Formulating Strategies to Reduce Aviation Noise. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1990 Sep. Report No.: T-RCED-90-111.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Warren PD. Characterizing polymers for cardiovascular devices [Doctoral dissertation]. [Tucson, AZ]: University of Arizona; 2012.

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. Shear MD, Goldman A, Cochrane E. G.O.P. Lawmaker Shot Outside Capital. New York Times. 2017 Jun 14;A1.

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	Thrombosis Journal
Abbreviation	Thromb. J.
ISSN (online)	1477-9560
Scope	Hematology