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]

C. Seife, PARTICLE PHYSICS: Elusive Particle Leaves Telltale Trace, Science 289 (2000) 527.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Y. Wang, H.G. Dohlman, Pheromone signaling mechanisms in yeast: a prototypical sex machine, Science 306 (2004) 1508–1509.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

T.A. Wynn, A. Chawla, J.W. Pollard, Macrophage biology in development, homeostasis and disease, Nature 496 (2013) 445–455.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

P. David, T. Bjorksten, K. Fowler, A. Pomiankowski, Condition-dependent signalling of genetic variation in stalk-eyed flies, Nature 406 (2000) 186–188.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

W. Reschetilowski, Technisch-Chemisches Praktikum, Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH, D-69451 Weinheim, Germany, 2002.

An edited book

[1]

M. Bramer, V. Terziyan, eds., Industrial Applications of Semantic Web: Proceedings of the 1st IFIP WG12.5 Working Conference on Industrial Applications of Semantic Web, August 25–27, 2005, Jyväskylä, Finland, Springer US, Boston, MA, 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

A. Holovaty, J. Kaplan-Moss, The Django Template System, in: J. Kaplan-Moss (Ed.), The Definitive Guide to Django: Web Development Done Right, Apress, Berkeley, CA, 2008: pp. 31–58.

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, “Wow! Signal” Was Likely The Radio Emission Of A Comet, IFLScience (2017). https://www.iflscience.com/space/the-wow-signal-was-likely-the-radio-emission-of-a-comet/ (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, Aviation Security: Slow Progress in Addressing Long-Standing Screener Performance Problems, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2000.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

X. Pan, Using Structural Information in Modeling and Multiple Alignments for Phylogenetics, Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University, 2008.

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. LaFORGIA, S. Eder, That Neighbor Who Grouses? Now President, New York Times (2017) A1.

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