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]

M.L. Mayer, Glutamate receptors at atomic resolution, Nature. 440 (2006) 456–462.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

T. Shinbrot, F.J. Muzzio, Noise to order, Nature. 410 (2001) 251–258.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

O.J. Reichman, M.B. Jones, M.P. Schildhauer, Challenges and opportunities of open data in ecology, Science. 331 (2011) 703–705.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

S. Panda, S.K. Nayak, B. Campo, J.R. Walker, J.B. Hogenesch, T. Jegla, Illumination of the melanopsin signaling pathway, Science. 307 (2005) 600–604.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

L. Hannon, J. Clift, General Hospital Care for People with Learning Disabilities, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., West Sussex, UK, 2010.

An edited book

[1]

D.H. Laidlaw, A. Vilanova, eds., New Developments in the Visualization and Processing of Tensor Fields, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

K. Ong, R. Cregin, Electronic Health Record and Patient Safety, in: A. Agrawal (Ed.), Patient Safety: A Case-Based Comprehensive Guide, Springer, New York, NY, 2014: pp. 69–86.

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]

J. O`Callaghan, ESA’s ExoMars Lander May Have Crash Landed On The Surface Of Mars, 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, Status of Equipment, Automotive Mechanics Training Project, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1970.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

S.E. Grefe, Plasmonic and topological insulator nanostructures and metamaterials nanoscale near-field investigations: Experiment and theory, 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]

G. Vecsey, The Old Guard Welcomes The New Guard, New York Times. (2012) B10.

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)

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