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]

L. Georghiou, Europe’s research system must change, Nature 452 (2008) 935–936.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

S. Tang, A. Guo, Choice behavior of Drosophila facing contradictory visual cues, Science 294 (2001) 1543–1547.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

J.B. Sneddon, M. Borowiak, D.A. Melton, Self-renewal of embryonic-stem-cell-derived progenitors by organ-matched mesenchyme, Nature 491 (2012) 765–768.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

W. Herbst, C.M. Hamilton, K. LeDuc, J.N. Winn, C.M. Johns-Krull, R. Mundt, M. Ibrahimov, Reflected light from sand grains in the terrestrial zone of a protoplanetary disk, Nature 452 (2008) 194–197.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

E. Breitmaier, Vom NMR-Spektrum zur Strukturformel organischer Verbindungen, Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany, 2005.

An edited book

[1]

I. Shergill, M. Arya, T. Upile, N. Arya, P. Dasgupta, eds., Surgical Emergencies in Clinical Practice, Springer, London, 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

A. Reichstaller, B. Eberhardinger, A. Knapp, W. Reif, M. Gehlen, Risk-Based Interoperability Testing Using Reinforcement Learning, in: F. Wotawa, M. Nica, N. Kushik (Eds.), Testing Software and Systems: 28th IFIP WG 6.1 International Conference, ICTSS 2016, Graz, Austria, October 17-19, 2016, Proceedings, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2016: pp. 52–69.

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]

D. Andrew, Study Reveals Why The Brain Can’t Forget Amputated Limbs, Even Decades Later, IFLScience (2016). https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/study-reveals-why-the-brain-cant-forget-amputated-limbs-even-decades-later/ (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, Maritime Administration: Improved Program Management Needed to Address Timely Disposal of Obsolete Ships, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2005.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Y. Liu, Analysis on the distinct path in a star interconnection network, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 2013.

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. Pilon, S. Craig, Safety Concerns Stoke Criticism of Kennel Club, New York Times (2013) SP1.

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