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]

D. Abele, Toxic oxygen: the radical life-giver, Nature 420 (2002) 27.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

T.B. Reynolds, G.R. Fink, Bakers’ yeast, a model for fungal biofilm formation, Science 291 (2001) 878–881.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

C. Zeng, X. Liu, G. Wang, Electrically tunable graphene plasmonic quasicrystal metasurfaces for transformation optics, Sci. Rep. 4 (2014) 5763.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

J. Schiller, G. Major, H.J. Koester, Y. Schiller, NMDA spikes in basal dendrites of cortical pyramidal neurons, Nature 404 (2000) 285–289.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

E. Laykin, Investigative Computer Forensics, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2013.

An edited book

[1]

R. Barrios, A.K. Haque, eds., Parasitic Diseases of the Lungs, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

M. Narita, K. Niikura, A. Yamashita, D. Ikegami, N. Kuzumaki, M. Narita, T. Suzuki, Chronic Pain Stimuli Downregulate Mesolimbic Dopaminergic Transmission: Possible Mechanism of the Suppression of Opioid Reward, in: C.A. Fairbanks, M.P.D.T. J (Eds.), Neurobiological Studies of Addiction in Chronic Pain States, Springer, New York, NY, 2014: pp. 49–58.

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 International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer.

Blog post

[1]

J. Davis, Researchers Rewrite Massive Sections Of Bacteria’s Genome, IFLScience (2016). https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/researchers-rewrite-massive-sections-of-bacterias-genome/ (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, Information on Prime Sponsor CETA Expenditures Related to Membership Organizations, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1981.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

D. Morales, Understanding How Perceptions of School Leadership and School Community Relationships Affected Veteran Teachers’ Decisions to Remain Working in Urban Elementary Schools, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 2017.

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]

B. Kenigsberg, Film Series, New York Times (2017) C23.

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