How to format your references using the Thyroid Research citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Thyroid Research. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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. Clary DC. Chemistry. Geometric phase in chemical reactions. Science. 2005;309:1195–6.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Mello CC, Conte D Jr. Revealing the world of RNA interference. Nature. 2004;431:338–42.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Rannou P, Hourdin F, McKay CP. A wind origin for Titan’s haze structure. Nature. 2002;418:853–6.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Theisen DJ, Davidson JT 4th, Briseño CG, Gargaro M, Lauron EJ, Wang Q, et al. WDFY4 is required for cross-presentation in response to viral and tumor antigens. Science. 2018;362:694–9.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Lee KB. Principles of Microelectromechanical Systems. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2011.

An edited book

1. Cavalieri P, editor. Philosophy and the Politics of Animal Liberation. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan US; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Orihuela L, Vivas C. $$H_2/H_{\infty }$$ Control for Networked Control Systems with Asynchronous Communication. In: Guinaldo Losada M, Rodríguez Rubio F, Dormido Bencomo S, editors. Asynchronous Control for Networked Systems. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015. p. 111–31.

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 Research.

Blog post

1. Carpineti A. Intense Underground Stress Forces Mountains To Sprout On Io. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016.

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. Information Superhighway: Issues Affecting Development. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1994 Sep. Report No.: RCED-94-285.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Bailey CN. The influence of gardens on resilience in older adults living in a continuing care community [Doctoral dissertation]. [Boca Raton, FL]: Florida Atlantic University; 2015.

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. Barnes B, Buckley C. ‘La La Land’ Dominates With Record Wins. New York Times. 2017 Jan 8;C1.

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	Thyroid Research
Abbreviation	Thyroid Res.
ISSN (online)	1756-6614
Scope	Endocrinology Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism Endocrine and Autonomic Systems