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. 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

Lazar MA 2008 Developmental biology. How now, brown fat? Science 321:1048–1049.

A journal article with 2 authors

Otsuka K, Karato S-I 2012 Deep penetration of molten iron into the mantle caused by a morphological instability. Nature 492:243–246.

A journal article with 3 authors

Tsubogo T, Oyamada H, Kobayashi S 2015 Multistep continuous-flow synthesis of (R)- and (S)-rolipram using heterogeneous catalysts. Nature 520:329–332.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Masumoto H, Muramatsu S, Kamimura Y, et al. 2002 S-Cdk-dependent phosphorylation of Sld2 essential for chromosomal DNA replication in budding yeast. Nature 415:651–655.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Chappell D 2008 The JCT Intermediate Building Contracts 2005. Blackwell Publishing, Oxford, UK.

An edited book

2011 Long Non-Coding RNAs. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Harrison SD 2012 Singing, Men and Australian Culture. In: Harrison, SD, Welch, GF, Adler, A (eds) Perspectives on Males and Singing. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp 65–75.

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

Andrews R 2017 Climate Change Is Already Harming Your Health. IFLScience. IFLScience. Available at https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/climate-change-harming-health-now/. 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 1982 Survey To Identify Models Used by Executive Agencies in the Policymaking Process. PAD-82-46. 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

Kalinec-Craig C 2012 A case study of four Latina/o pre-service teachers in learning to teach mathematics for understanding and integrate a child’s out-of-school mathematical knowledge and experiences. Doctoral dissertation, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ.

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

Walsh MW 2010 Maine Giving Social Security Another Look. New York Times.

In-text citations

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

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