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

Sheng P 2006 Applied physics. Waves on the horizon. Science 313:1399–1400.

A journal article with 2 authors

Li J, Nam KH 2002 Regulation of brassinosteroid signaling by a GSK3/SHAGGY-like kinase. Science 295:1299–1301.

A journal article with 3 authors

Lishko PV, Botchkina IL, Kirichok Y 2011 Progesterone activates the principal Ca2+ channel of human sperm. Nature 471:387–391.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Juarez MT, Kui JS, Thomas J, et al. 2004 microRNA-mediated repression of rolled leaf1 specifies maize leaf polarity. Nature 428:84–88.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Moe TM, Chubb JE 2009 Liberating Learning. Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, CA, USA.

An edited book

2015 Decolonizing “Multicultural” Counseling through Social Justice. Springer, New York, NY.

A chapter in an edited book

Schroeder D, Rerimassie V 2015 Science and Technology Governance and European Values. In: Ladikas, M, Chaturvedi, S, Zhao, Y, et al. (eds) Science and Technology Governance and Ethics: A Global Perspective from Europe, India and China. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 53–71.

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 2014 Experimental Ebola Treatment Produced In Genetically Modified Plants. IFLScience. IFLScience. Available at https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/experimental-ebola-treatment-produced-genetically-modified-plants/. 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 2004 Aviation Security: Preliminary Observations on TSA’s Progress to Allow Airports to Use Private Passenger and Baggage Screening Services. GAO-05-126. 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

Munchel BF 2015 Exploratory Study of Counseling Professionals’ Attitudes Toward Distance Clinical Supervision. Doctoral dissertation, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL.

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

Kelly S 1993 Be of Good Fear. 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

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