How to format your references using the International Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer. 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]

M.S. Swaminathan, Obituary: Norman E. Borlaug (1914-2009), Nature 461 (2009) 894.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

N. Seddon, T. Bearpark, Observation of the inverse Doppler effect, Science 302 (2003) 1537–1540.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

G. Wild, A. Gardner, S.A. West, Adaptation and the evolution of parasite virulence in a connected world, Nature 459 (2009) 983–986.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

D.R. Greenwood, D. Comeskey, M.B. Hunt, L.E.L. Rasmussen, Chemical communication: chirality in elephant pheromones, Nature 438 (2005) 1097–1098.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

T.N. Ruckmongathan, Addressing Techniques of Liquid Crystal Displays, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2014.

An edited book

[1]

G. Marsico, ed., Jerome S. Bruner beyond 100: Cultivating Possibilities, 1st ed. 2015, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

N. May, I. Weber, Information Gathering for Semantic Service Discovery and Composition in Business Process Modeling, in: J.L.G. Dietz, A. Albani, J. Barjis (Eds.), Advances in Enterprise Engineering I: 4th International Workshop CIAO! And 4th International Workshop EOMAS, Held at CAiSE 2008, Montpellier, France, June 16-17, 2008. Proceedings, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2008: pp. 46–60.

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 International Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer.

Blog post

[1]

R. Andrews, Australian Trees And Termite Mounds Hint At Hidden Gold Caches, IFLScience (2017). https://www.iflscience.com/environment/australian-trees-termite-mounds-hint-hidden-gold-caches/ (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, Year 2000 Computing Crisis: Telecommunications Readiness Critical, Yet Overall Status Largely Unknown, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1998.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

R. Colchero Dorado, Recovering memory in Jordi Soler’s “Los rojos de ultramar,” Doctoral dissertation, University of North Carolina, 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]

K. Alexander, What Should I Stop Buying and Make Instead?, New York Times (2011) MM48.

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	International Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer
ISSN (print)	0735-1933
Scope	General Chemical Engineering Condensed Matter Physics Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics