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

Wadman M. The pain game. Nature. 2007 Jul;448(7152):400–1.

A journal article with 2 authors

Matsuda N, Tanaka K. Cell biology: Tagged tags engage disposal. Nature. 2015 Aug;524(7565):294–5.

A journal article with 3 authors

Takeuchi A, Kim B, Matsuoka S. The mitochondrial Na+-Ca2+ exchanger, NCLX, regulates automaticity of HL-1 cardiomyocytes. Sci Rep. 2013 Sep;3:2766.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Shima S, Pilak O, Vogt S, Schick M, Stagni MS, Meyer-Klaucke W, et al. The crystal structure of [Fe]-hydrogenase reveals the geometry of the active site. Science. 2008 Jul;321(5888):572–5.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

King M. Process Control. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2016.

An edited book

Manfrè L, editor. Spinal Instability. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

Wust J, Grund M, Plattner H. Dynamic Query Prioritization for In-Memory Databases. In: Jagatheesan A, Levandoski J, Neumann T, Pavlo A, editors. In Memory Data Management and Analysis: First and Second International Workshops, IMDM 2013, Riva del Garda, Italy, August 26, 2013, IMDM 2014, Hongzhou, China, September 1, 2014, Revised Selected Papers. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015; pp 56–68.

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

Andrew E. Are Artificial Wombs And Lab-Grown Babies The Future Of Childbirth? [Internet]. IFLScience. 2016 May [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/frozen-ovaries-lab-grown-babies-future-childbirth/

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. Mass Transit: Implementation of FTA’s New Starts Evaluation Process and FY 2001 Funding Proposals. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2000.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Mendoza-Williams J. Road to success: The experiences of academically successful graduation-bound African American males. 2015

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

(nyt) SK. World Briefing | Europe: Estonia: Vodka Pipeline. New York Times. 2004 Dec;A6.

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