How to format your references using the Frontiers in Thyroid Endocrinology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Frontiers in Thyroid Endocrinology. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Vukusic, P. (2009). Materials science. Evolutionary photonics with a twist. Science 325, 398–399.

A journal article with 2 authors

Katz, A., and Davis, M. E. (2000). Molecular imprinting of bulk, microporous silica. Nature 403, 286–289.

A journal article with 3 authors

Lindström, N. O., Hohenstein, P., and Davies, J. A. (2013). Nephrons require Rho-kinase for proximal-distal polarity development. Sci. Rep. 3, 2692.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Amelung, F., Jónsson, S., Zebker, H., and Segall, P. (2000). Widespread uplift and “trapdoor” faulting on Galápagos volcanoes observed with radar interferometry. Nature 407, 993–996.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Marroni, L., and Perdomo, I. (2013). Pricing and Hedging Financial Derivatives. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons Ltd.

An edited book

Riaño, D., Teije, A. T., Miksch, S., and Peleg, M. eds. (2010). Knowledge Representation for Health-Care. Data, Processes and Guidelines: AIME 2009 Workshop KR4HC 2009, Verona, Italy, July 19, 2009, Revised Selected and Invited Papers. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Hashizume, H., van der Gaast, S., and Theng, B. K. G. (2013). “Interactions of Clay Minerals with RNA Components,” in Evolutionary Biology: Exobiology and Evolutionary Mechanisms, ed. P. Pontarotti (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer), 61–79.

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 Frontiers in Thyroid Endocrinology.

Blog post

Davis, J. (2017). A Giant Among Dwarfs: New Species Of Dwarf Bushbaby Discovered In Angola. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/a-giant-among-dwarfs-new-species-of-dwarf-bushbaby-discovered-in-angola/ (Accessed October 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 (1986). Federal Funding Mechanisms in Support of University Research. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Long, K. E. (2009). Voluntary exiles: Short-term Western expatriates in three Chinese cities. Long Beach, CA: California State University, Long Beach.

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

Barron, J. (2016). The Lost Battle That Helped Win the Revolution. New York Times, A15.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Vukusic, 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Katz and Davis, 2000; Vukusic, 2009).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Katz and Davis, 2000)
Three or more authors: (Amelung et al., 2000)

About the journal

Full journal title	Frontiers in Thyroid Endocrinology
Abbreviation	Front. Endocrinol. (Lausanne)
ISSN (online)	1664-2392
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