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

Ibáñez Insa J. Geochemistry. Reformulating table salt under pressure. Science. 2013 Dec;342(6165):1459–60.

A journal article with 2 authors

Stappenbeck TS, Miyoshi H. The role of stromal stem cells in tissue regeneration and wound repair. Science. 2009 Jun;324(5935):1666–9.

A journal article with 3 authors

Huber D, Veinante P, Stoop R. Vasopressin and oxytocin excite distinct neuronal populations in the central amygdala. Science. 2005 Apr;308(5719):245–8.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Rusakov DA, Scimemi A, Walker MC, Kullmann DM. Comment on “Role of NMDA receptor subtypes in governing the direction of hippocampal synaptic plasticity.” Science. 2004 Sep;305(5692):1912; author reply.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Stone R, Gutiérrez-Albilla JD. A Companion to Luis Buñuel. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishing Ltd; 2013.

An edited book

Wang L, Chen K, Ong YS, editors. Advances in Natural Computation: First International Conference, ICNC 2005, Changsha, China, August 27-29, 2005, Proceedings, Part II. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

Eichstädt T. Applying Auction Theory to Procurement Auctions – An Empirical Study Among German Corporations. In: Gimpel H, Jennings NR, Kersten GE, Ockenfels A, Weinhardt C, editors. Negotiation, Auctions, and Market Engineering: International Seminar, Dagstuhl Castle, Germany, November 12-17, 2006, Revised Selected Papers. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2008; pp 58–67.

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

Fang J. Earth Was Bombarded By Huge Meteorites Constantly Until 3 Billion Years Ago [Internet]. IFLScience. 2014 Aug [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/earth-was-bombarded-huge-meteorites-constantly-until-3-billion-years-ago/

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. National Transportation Safety Board’s Implementation of GAO Recommendations. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2012.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Dues PM. Quantitative correlation of enterprise resource planning type, success, and technology leadership style in local government. 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

Koblin J. When Fake News was Funny. New York Times. 2016 Dec;BR41.

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

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