How to format your references using the International Journal of Pressure Vessels and Piping citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Journal of Pressure Vessels and Piping. 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. Mortimer, The time is ripe, Nature 447 (2007) 884.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

T.T. Macdonald, G. Monteleone, Immunity, inflammation, and allergy in the gut, Science 307 (2005) 1920–1925.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

V.B. Deecke, P.J.B. Slater, J.K.B. Ford, Selective habituation shapes acoustic predator recognition in harbour seals, Nature 420 (2002) 171–173.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

B. Yu, Z. Yang, J. Li, S. Minakhina, M. Yang, R.W. Padgett, R. Steward, X. Chen, Methylation as a crucial step in plant microRNA biogenesis, Science 307 (2005) 932–935.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

K. Schroeder, T. Thompson, K. Frith, D. Pencheon, Sustainable Healthcare, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2012.

An edited book

[1]

P.M. Kappeler, J. Silk, eds., Mind the Gap: Tracing the Origins of Human Universals, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

A.A. Podtelezhnikov, D.L. Wild, Inferring Knowledge Based Potentials Using Contrastive Divergence, in: T. Hamelryck, K. Mardia, J. Ferkinghoff-Borg (Eds.), Bayesian Methods in Structural Bioinformatics, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2012: pp. 135–155.

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 Pressure Vessels and Piping.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, Motion Sickness Can Be Relieved By Applying An Electric Current To Your Scalp, IFLScience (2015). https://www.iflscience.com/technology/relieve-motion-sickness-electric-current-across-brain/ (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, Older Adults: Federal Strategy Needed to Help Ensure Efficient and Effective Delivery of Home and Community-Based Services and Supports, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2015.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

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D. De Felice, A Phenomenological Study of Teaching Endangered Languages Online: Perspectives from Nahua and Mayan Educators, Doctoral dissertation, University of South Florida, 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]

S. Chira, When Japan Had a Third Gender, New York Times (2017) C1.

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 Pressure Vessels and Piping
Abbreviation	Int. J. Pressure Vessels Piping
ISSN (print)	0308-0161
Scope	Mechanical Engineering Mechanics of Materials General Materials Science