Treat a character's thoughts just dialogue, but without the quotes. Use italics in place of the quotes. In the case below, note that the character's thoughts are capitalized even though they don't seem to be the beginning of the sentence (the same is done when a dialogue attribution comes before the actual dialogue). Also note that "she" is not italicized, because italics are also used for emphasis, to make a word stand out, and in order to achieve the same effect in a character's thoughts, the writer removes the italics from the emphasized word.
She thought, What's she doing here? (Hambly 131)
NOT
She thought, what's she doing here?
Source
Hambly, Barbara. Star Wars: Children of the Jedi. NY, NY:
Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing, 1996. Print.
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