How to format your references using the Thrombosis Journal citation style

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

1. Luo Z-X. Journal club. A palaeontologist ponders how genes and fossils can illuminate mammalian evolution. Nature. 2010;465:669.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Koechlin E, Hyafil A. Anterior prefrontal function and the limits of human decision-making. Science. 2007;318:594–8.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Zhang JY, Liu G, Sun J. Crystallization-aided extraordinary plastic deformation in nanolayered crystalline Cu/amorphous Cu-Zr micropillars. Sci Rep. 2013;3:2324.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Anderson BJ, Acuña MH, Korth H, Purucker ME, Johnson CL, Slavin JA, et al. The structure of Mercury’s magnetic field from MESSENGER’s first flyby. Science. 2008;321:82–5.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Burghardt G, Walls B. Managed Futures for Institutional Investors. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2011.

An edited book

1. Gathen J von Z, Imaña JL, Koç ÇK, editors. Arithmetic of Finite Fields: 2nd International Workshop, WAIFI 2008 Siena, Italy, July 6-9, 2008 Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2008.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Deutsch M. Undoing Nuclear Insanity: A Psychological Perspective. In: Deutsch M, editor. Morton Deutsch: Major Texts on Peace Psychology. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015. p. 53–62.

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 Thrombosis Journal.

Blog post

1. Davis J. Researchers Trick Migrating Song Birds By Altering The Magnetic Field They’re Exposed To. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015.

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

1. Government Accountability Office. VA Information Technology: Progress Continues Although Vulnerabilities Remain. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2000 Sep. Report No.: T-AIMD-00-321.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Acosta J. Building bridges: A specialized training program for professionals in school settings to address bullying in LGBTQ youth: A grant proposal [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2013.

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

1. Wagner J. Baker Is Out as the Nationals Manager. New York Times. 2017 Oct 20;D4.

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	Thrombosis Journal
Abbreviation	Thromb. J.
ISSN (online)	1477-9560
Scope	Hematology