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]

R.P. Binzel, Human spaceflight: Find asteroids to get to Mars, Nature. 514 (2014) 559–561.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

J. Fries-Gaither, K. Lightle, SPORE series winner. Penguins and polar bears integrates science and literacy, Science. 331 (2011) 413–414.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

S.D. Sampson, M.T. Carrano, C.A. Forster, A bizarre predatory dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous of Madagascar, Nature. 409 (2001) 504–506.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

I. Doron-Mor I., A. Hatzor, A. Vaskevich, van der Boom-Moav T, A. Shanzer, I. Rubinstein I., H. Cohen, Controlled surface charging as a depth-profiling probe for mesoscopic layers, Nature. 406 (2000) 382–385.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

D. Popescu, A. Gharbi, D. Stefanoiu, P. Borne, Process Control Design for Industrial Applications, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2017.

An edited book

[1]

M. Kobayashi-Hillary, ed., Building a Future with BRICs: The Next Decade for Offshoring, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2008.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

J.M. Jones, A.R. Lea-Langton, L. Ma, M. Pourkashanian, A. Williams, Emissions from Different Types of Combustors and Their Control, in: A.R. Lea-Langton, L. Ma, M. Pourkashanian, A. Williams (Eds.), Pollutants Generated by the Combustion of Solid Biomass Fuels, Springer, London, 2014: pp. 63–70.

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]

J. O`Callaghan, This Guy Hired A Helicopter To Snap The First Image Of A Secret New SpaceX Machine, IFLScience. (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

[1]

Government Accountability Office, Safe Routes to School: Progress in Implementing the Program, but a Comprehensive Plan to Evaluate Program Outcomes Is Needed, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2008.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

M.M. Jenkins, Clinical decision-making and pediatric bipolar disorder, Doctoral dissertation, University of North Carolina, 2009.

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]

C. Kelly, The Right Look Gives A Home a Second Act, New York Times. (2007) WE6.

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