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

Loder N 2000 Unesco “worse than I imagined,” says new director. Nature 404:113.

A journal article with 2 authors

Veigel C, Schmidt CF 2009 Biochemistry. Friction in motor proteins. Science 325:826–827.

A journal article with 3 authors

Peng L, Song Z-G, Jiao S-C 2014 Efficacy analysis of tyrosine kinase inhibitors on rare non-small cell lung cancer patients harboring complex EGFR mutations. Sci Rep 4:6104.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Turnbaugh PJ, Ley RE, Mahowald MA, et al. 2006 An obesity-associated gut microbiome with increased capacity for energy harvest. Nature 444:1027–1031.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kadane JB, Schum DA 1997 A Probabilistic Analysis of the Sacco and Vanzetti Evidence: Kadane/A Probabilistic. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

2012 Bridging the Geographic Information Sciences: International AGILE’2012 Conference, Avignon (France), April, 24-27, 2012. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Bauer FL 2011 Use of Continued Fractions and Algorithms Related to Them. In: Ghizzetti, A (ed) Alcune questioni di analisi numerica. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 352–419.

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

Andrew E 2015 New Studies Fail To Find Associations Between Psychedelic Drugs And Mental Health Problems. IFLScience. IFLScience. Available at https://www.iflscience.com/brain/new-studies-fail-find-associations-between-psychedelic-drugs-and-mental-health-problems/. 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 1990 Higher Education: Gaps in Parents’ and Students’ Knowledge of School Costs and Federal Aid. PEMD-90-20BR. 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

Rivera A 2010 A post analysis of an advanced access appointment model. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Vecsey G 2009 Grandpa Loved Horses, or How a Filly Got Her Name. 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