How to format your references using the Journal of Thrombosis and Thrombolysis citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Thrombosis and Thrombolysis. 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

Hoag H (2003) In search of form and function. Nature 425:880–881

A journal article with 2 authors

Barve A, Wagner A (2013) A latent capacity for evolutionary innovation through exaptation in metabolic systems. Nature 500:203–206

A journal article with 3 authors

Bosmans F, Martin-Eauclaire M-F, Swartz KJ (2008) Deconstructing voltage sensor function and pharmacology in sodium channels. Nature 456:202–208

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Meyerson JR, Rao P, Kumar J, et al (2014) Self-assembled monolayers improve protein distribution on holey carbon cryo-EM supports. Sci Rep 4:7084

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hens H (2012) Building Physics - Heat, Air and Moisture. Ernst & Sohn Verlag für Architektur und technische Wissenschaften GmbH & Co. KG, Berlin, Germany

An edited book

Cockburn J, Pawson ME (2007) Psychological Challenges in Obstetrics and Gynecology: The Clinical Management. Springer, London

A chapter in an edited book

Bender W (2007) Types of Extrusion Units. In: Händle F (ed) Extrusion in Ceramics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 59–84

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 Journal of Thrombosis and Thrombolysis.

Blog post

Hale T (2017) The World’s Rarest Wild Dog Has Not Gone Extinct After All. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/the-worlds-rarest-wild-dog-has-not-gone-extinct-after-all/. Accessed 30 Oct 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 (2016) Higher Education: Actions Needed to Improve Access to Federal Financial Assistance for Homeless and Foster Youth. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Vespa MC (2013) System Identification and Compensation Using a Surface-Bristle Deflection Model. Doctoral dissertation, Southern Illinois University

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

Pastan L (2015) The Bridge. New York Times MM28

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	Journal of Thrombosis and Thrombolysis
Abbreviation	J. Thromb. Thrombolysis
ISSN (print)	0929-5305
ISSN (online)	1573-742X
Scope	Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine Hematology