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

Dajani R. How women scientists fare in the Arab world. Nature. 2012 Nov;491(7422):9.

A journal article with 2 authors

Nesbit J, Bradford M. 2009 Visualization Challenge. Science. 2010 Feb;327(5968):945–55.

A journal article with 3 authors

Alfe D, Gillan MJ, Price GD. Constraints on the composition of the Earth’s core from ab initio calculations. Nature. 2000 May;405(6783):172–5.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Pawelek PD, Croteau N, Ng-Thow-Hing C, Khursigara CM, Moiseeva N, Allaire M, et al. Structure of TonB in complex with FhuA, E. coli outer membrane receptor. Science. 2006 Jun;312(5778):1399–402.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Polushkin V. Nuclear Electronics. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2005.

An edited book

Gelmetti C, editor. Storia della Dermatologia e della Venereologia in Italia. Milano: Springer; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

Bose S, Das C, Chakraborty A, Chattopadhyay S. Effectiveness of Different Partition Based Clustering Algorithms for Estimation of Missing Values in Microarray Gene Expression Data. In: Meghanathan N, Nagamalai D, Chaki N, editors. Advances in Computing and Information Technology: Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Advances in Computing and Information Technology (ACITY) July 13-15, 2012, Chennai, India - Volume 2. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2013; pp 37–47.

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

Andrews R. 6,000-Year-Old Amulet Represents A Tech That Helped Take Humanity Into Space [Internet]. IFLScience. 2016 Nov

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. Railroad Safety: DOT Should Better Manage Its Hazardous Materials Inspection Program. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1989.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Sorensen TR. The Use of Classroom Walk-Through Observations as a Strategy to Improve Teaching and Learning: A Student Centered Perspective. 2010

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

Bernstein N. Medicaid Shift Fuels Rush for Profitable Clients. New York Times. 2014 May;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	European Thyroid Journal
Abbreviation	Eur. Thyroid J.
ISSN (print)	2235-0640
ISSN (online)	2235-0802
Scope	Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism