How to format your references using the Thyroid citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Thyroid (THY). 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

Moro-Martín A. Spanish changes are scientific suicide. Nature 2012;482(7385):277.

A journal article with 2 authors

Person AL, Raman IM. Purkinje neuron synchrony elicits time-locked spiking in the cerebellar nuclei. Nature 2011;481(7382):502–505.

A journal article with 3 authors

Harris RA, Rogers J, Milosavljevic A. Human-specific changes of genome structure detected by genomic triangulation. Science 2007;316(5822):235–237.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

He X, Pan D, Bai Y, et al. A new simple concept for ocean colour remote sensing using parallel polarisation radiance. Sci Rep 2014;4:3748.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Wang J-J. Hydraulic Fracturing in Earth-Rock Fill DAMS. John Wiley & Sons, Singapore Pte. Ltd: Singapore; 2014.

An edited book

Trappl R, (ed). A Construction Manual for Robots’ Ethical Systems: Requirements, Methods, Implementations. 1st ed. 2015. Cognitive Technologies. Springer International Publishing: Cham; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

Chatain T, Haar S. A Canonical Contraction for Safe Petri Nets. In: Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency IX. (Koutny M, Haddad S, Yakovlev A. eds). Lecture Notes in Computer Science Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg; 2014; pp. 83–98.

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 Thyroid.

Blog post

Davis J. Elon Musk Wants To Launch 4,000 Satellites That Will Provide Internet From Space. IFLScience; 2015. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/elon-musk-plans-launching-4000-internet-satellites/ [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. Opportunities for Improving the Management of DOD Computer Systems. U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC; 1983.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Bleviss C. Constructing Competence: Normalization and Self-Determination for People with Developmental Disabilities. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach: Long Beach, CA; 2009.

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

Feeney K. Self-Serve Sundaes. New York Times 2010;NJ11.

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	Thyroid
Abbreviation	Thyroid
ISSN (print)	1050-7256
ISSN (online)	1557-9077
Scope	Endocrinology Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism