How to format your references using the Computational Thermal Sciences: An International Journal citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Computational Thermal Sciences: An International Journal (CTS). 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

Garboczi, D. N., Structural Biology. “D” Is Not for Diversity, Science (New York, N.Y.), vol. 308, no. 5719, pp. 209–10, April 8, 2005.

A journal article with 2 authors

Dorfman, K. E. and Mukamel, S., Indistinguishability and Correlations of Photons Generated by Quantum Emitters Undergoing Spectral Diffusion, Scientific Reports, vol. 4, p. 3996, February 10, 2014.

A journal article with 3 authors

Schroeder, J. I., Kwak, J. M. and Allen, G. J., Guard Cell Abscisic Acid Signalling and Engineering Drought Hardiness in Plants, Nature, vol. 410, no. 6826, pp. 327–30, March 15, 2001.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Cassidy, C., Singh, V., Grammatikopoulos, P., Djurabekova, F., Nordlund, K. and Sowwan, M., Inoculation of Silicon Nanoparticles with Silver Atoms, Scientific Reports, vol. 3, p. 3083, October 30, 2013.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Elliott, C. H. and Smith, L. L., Overcoming Anxiety for Dummies®, Hoboken, NJ: Wiley Publishing, Inc., 2010.

An edited book

Benthem, J. van, Heinzmann, G., Rebuschi, M., and Visser, H. Eds., The Age of Alternative Logics: Assessing Philosophy of Logic and Mathematics Today, Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, X, 348 p, 2006.

A chapter in an edited book

Alpay, D., Jorgensen, P., Lewkowicz, I. and Martziano, I., Infinite Product Representations for Kernels and Iterations of Functions, in Recent Advances in Inverse Scattering, Schur Analysis and Stochastic Processes: A Collection of Papers Dedicated to Lev Sakhnovich, D. Alpay and B. Kirstein, Eds., Cham: Springer International Publishing, pp. 67–87, 2015.

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 Computational Thermal Sciences: An International Journal.

Blog post

Andrews, R., Why Is The Pregnancy-Related Death Rate In Texas The Highest In The US?, IFLScience, June 6, 2017.

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, Practitioner Data Bank: Information on Small Medical Malpractice Payments, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, IMTEC-92-56, Jul. 7, 1992.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Barkis, B., How Do Highly Engaged Employees and Managers Find Meaning in Their Work?, Doctoral dissertation, Pepperdine University, 2017.

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

Shear, M. D., In Former F.B.I. Director, Investigation Gains a Leader Known for Independence, New York Times, May 18, 2017.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Garboczi, 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Garboczi, 2005; Dorfman et al., 2014).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Dorfman et al., 2014)
Three or more authors: (Cassidy et al., 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Computational Thermal Sciences: An International Journal
ISSN (print)	1940-2503
ISSN (online)	1940-2554
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