How to format your references using the Thyroid citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Thyroid (THY). 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

Lozier MS. Deconstructing the conveyor belt. Science 2010;328(5985):1507–1511.

A journal article with 2 authors

Nadeau RM, Guilhem A. Nonvolcanic tremor evolution and the San Simeon and Parkfield, California, earthquakes. Science 2009;325(5937):191–193.

A journal article with 3 authors

McKemy DD, Neuhausser WM, Julius D. Identification of a cold receptor reveals a general role for TRP channels in thermosensation. Nature 2002;416(6876):52–58.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Sun Y, Liu J, Sun T, et al. Anti-cancer small molecule JP-8g exhibits potent in vivo anti-inflammatory activity. Sci Rep 2014;4:4372.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Al-Shuhail AA, Al-Dossary SA, Mousa WA. Seismic Data Interpretation Using Digital Image Processing. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd: Chichester, UK; 2017.

An edited book

Miller HJ, (ed). Societies and Cities in the Age of Instant Access. The GeoJournal Library. Springer Netherlands: Dordrecht; 2007.

A chapter in an edited book

Diekötter T, Walther-Hellwig K, Conradi M, et al. Effects of Landscape Elements on the Distribution of the Rare Bumblebee Species Bombus Muscorum in an Agricultural Landscape. In: Arthropod Diversity and Conservation. (Hawksworth DL, Bull AT. eds). Topics in Biodiversity and Conservation Springer Netherlands: Dordrecht; 2006; pp. 43–54.

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 Thyroid.

Blog post

Carpineti A. It’s A Busy Month For Asteroids Flying Past Earth. IFLScience; 2016. [Last accessed: 10/30/2018].

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. Comments From The Copyright Office On GAO-10-428R (GAO-10-707SP), an E-Supplement to GAO-10-428R. U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC; 2010.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Koester A. It All Started on a Lake. Doctoral dissertation. Southern Illinois University: Edwardsville, IL; 2017.

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

Brantley B. Songs Say What Words Can’t. New York Times 2017;C1.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

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	Thyroid
Abbreviation	Thyroid
ISSN (print)	1050-7256
ISSN (online)	1557-9077
Scope	Endocrinology Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism