How to format your references using the European Thyroid Journal citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for European Thyroid 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 references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles 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

Blow N. Transcriptomics: The digital generation. Nature. 2009 Mar;458(7235):239–42.

A journal article with 2 authors

Wickner W, Schekman R. Protein translocation across biological membranes. Science. 2005 Dec;310(5753):1452–6.

A journal article with 3 authors

Li Z, Marsiglio F, Carbotte JP. Vanishing of interband light absorption in a persistent spin helix state. Sci Rep. 2013 Oct;3:2828.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Hessler AM, Lowe DR, Jones RL, Bird DK. A lower limit for atmospheric carbon dioxide levels 3.2 billion years ago. Nature. 2004 Apr;428(6984):736–8.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Maier H. Chemiker im „Dritten Reich“. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; 2015.

An edited book

Braibant S. Particelle e interazioni fondamentali: Il mondo delle particelle. Milano: Springer; 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

Khan MA, Zaki Y. Dynamic Spectrum Trade and Game-Theory Based Network Selection in LTE Virtualization Using Uniform Auctioning. In: Masip-Bruin X, Verchere D, Tsaoussidis V, Yannuzzi M, editors. Wired/Wireless Internet Communications: 9th IFIP TC 6 International Conference, WWIC 2011, Vilanova i la Geltrú, Spain, June 15-17, 2011. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2011; pp 39–55.

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 European Thyroid Journal.

Blog post

Hamilton K. Genes Can Have Up To 80% Influence On Students’ Academic Performance [Internet]. IFLScience. 2016 Jun [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/genes-can-have-up-to-80percent-influence-on-students-academic-performance/

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. Office of Telecommunications Policy’s Contract for a Publication on Intercepting Electronic Communications. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1978.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Emerson JD. The Jambalaya That is My Brain. 2001

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

Erlanger S. ‘Brexit’ Talks Open in Brussels, With a Mountain for Britain and Europe to Climb. New York Times. 2017 Jun;A9.

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	European Thyroid Journal
Abbreviation	Eur. Thyroid J.
ISSN (print)	2235-0640
ISSN (online)	2235-0802
Scope	Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism