How to format your references using the Case Studies in Thermal Engineering citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Case Studies in Thermal Engineering. 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]

G.E.D. Oldroyd, Plant science. Nodules and hormones, Science 315 (2007) 52–53.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

M.S. Hale, R.B. Rivkin, Comment on “Nature of phosphorus limitation in the ultraoligotrophic eastern Mediterranean,” Science 312 (2006) 1748; author reply 1748.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

J.K. Hamlin, K. Wynn, P. Bloom, Social evaluation by preverbal infants, Nature 450 (2007) 557–559.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

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R. Knutti, J. Flückiger, T.F. Stocker, A. Timmermann, Strong hemispheric coupling of glacial climate through freshwater discharge and ocean circulation, Nature 430 (2004) 851–856.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

R.B. Jones, 20% Chance of Rain, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2011.

An edited book

[1]

G. Avoine, O. Kara, eds., Lightweight Cryptography for Security and Privacy: Second International Workshop, LightSec 2013, Gebze, Turkey, May 6-7, 2013, Revised Selected Papers, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

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R.A. Aliev, B.G. Guirimov, Type-2 Fuzzy Clustering, in: B.G. Guirimov (Ed.), Type-2 Fuzzy Neural Networks and Their Applications, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2014: pp. 153–166.

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 Case Studies in Thermal Engineering.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, Lead Pollution Got To The South Pole Before We Did, IFLScience (2014). https://www.iflscience.com/environment/lead-pollution-got-south-pole-we-did/ (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

[1]

Government Accountability Office, Student Testing: Current Extent and Expenditures, With Cost Estimates for a National Examination, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1993.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

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Y. Nasrollahzadeh, Support group for caregivers of older adults affected by dementia: A grant proposal project, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 2013.

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]

B. Rothenberg, A Cosmetics Company Bets on Underdogs, New York Times (2017) B1.

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	Case Studies in Thermal Engineering
Abbreviation	Case Stud. Therm. Eng.
ISSN (print)	2214-157X
Scope	Fluid Flow and Transfer Processes Engineering (miscellaneous)