How to format your references using the Infrared Physics and Technology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Infrared Physics and Technology. 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	Download the output style file
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]

D. Knight, Kinds of minds, Nature 447 (2007) 149.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

G. Georgiou, L. Masip, Biochemistry. An overoxidation journey with a return ticket, Science 300 (2003) 592–594.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

R. Pielke Jr, T. Wigley, C. Green, Dangerous assumptions, Nature 452 (2008) 531–532.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

W.S. Peters, B. Herkner, A. Webb, J. Hibberd, Offside researchers score an own goal, Nature 405 (2000) 508.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

S. Goodhew, Sustainable Construction Processes, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2016.

An edited book

[1]

J. Derrick, Refinement in Z and Object-Z: Foundations and Advanced Applications, 2nd ed. 2014, Springer, London, 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

T. van Kessel, N. Drost, F.J. Seinstra, User Transparent Task Parallel Multimedia Content Analysis, in: P. D’Ambra, M. Guarracino, D. Talia (Eds.), Euro-Par 2010 - Parallel Processing: 16th International Euro-Par Conference, Ischia, Italy, August 31 - September 3, 2010, Proceedings, Part II, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2010: pp. 38–50.

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 Infrared Physics and Technology.

Blog post

[1]

A. Carpineti, Astronomers Have Seen The Farthest Blazars Yet, IFLScience (2017). https://www.iflscience.com/space/astronomers-have-seen-the-farthest-blazars-yet/ (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, Airport and Airway Trust Fund: Issues Raised by Proposal to Replace the Airline Ticket Tax, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1996.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

K.M. Akiyama, Taste Detection in Post-Laryngectomy Head and Neck Cancer Survivors and Its Effect on Dietary Intake and Malnutrition Status, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 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

[1]

M.J.O. Murphy, The Metropolitan Museum of Art: A Look Back, New York Times (2015) C24.

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	Infrared Physics and Technology
Abbreviation	Infrared Phys. Technol.
ISSN (print)	1350-4495
Scope	Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials Condensed Matter Physics Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics