How to format your references using the International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Journal of 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]

A. Maxmen, Crop pests: Under attack, Nature 501 (2013) S15-7.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

M. Atatüre, J.J.L. Morton, Quantum information. A gem of a quantum teleporter, Science 345 (2014) 510–511.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

M. Kunchulia, K.S. Pilz, M.H. Herzog, Small effects of smoking on visual spatiotemporal processing, Sci. Rep. 4 (2014) 7316.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Y. Politi, T. Arad, E. Klein, S. Weiner, L. Addadi, Sea urchin spine calcite forms via a transient amorphous calcium carbonate phase, Science 306 (2004) 1161–1164.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

T. Numai, Laser Diodes and their Applications to Communications and Information Processing, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2010.

An edited book

[1]

P.J.V. Garcia, J.M. Ferreira, eds., Jets from Young Stars IV: From Models to Observations and Experiments, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

P. Pashiardis, M. Georgiou, M. Georghiou, Cyprus, in: J. Scheerens (Ed.), Informal Learning of Active Citizenship at School: An International Comparative Study in Seven European Countries, Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 2009: pp. 51–74.

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 Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer.

Blog post

[1]

J. Davis, More Sex Causes Male Burying Beetles To Evolve A Longer “Penis,” IFLScience (2016). https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/more-sex-causes-male-beetles-evolve-longer-penis/ (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, Campaign Finance Reform: Experiences of Two States That Offered Full Public Funding for Political Candidates, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2010.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

S. Xiao, Effects of adsorbates on the electronic properties of graphene, Doctoral dissertation, University of Maryland, College Park, 2012.

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]

J. Wagner, Reyes Raises His Game, and His Team’s Spirits, New York Times (2016) D7.

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 Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer
Abbreviation	Int. J. Heat Mass Transf.
ISSN (print)	0017-9310
Scope	Fluid Flow and Transfer Processes Mechanical Engineering Condensed Matter Physics