How to format your references using the International Journal of Refrigeration citation style

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

PaperpileThe citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNoteDownload the output style file
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and othersThe style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeXBibTeX 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
Rodnina, M.V., 2013. Biochemistry. Translocation in action. Science 340, 1534–1535.
A journal article with 2 authors
Panchanathan, K., Boyd, R., 2004. Indirect reciprocity can stabilize cooperation without the second-order free rider problem. Nature 432, 499–502.
A journal article with 3 authors
Zhang, L., Zeng, X., Wang, X., 2013. Programmable hydrogenation of graphene for novel nanocages. Sci. Rep. 3, 3162.
A journal article with 4 or more authors
Clutton-Brock, T.H., Hodge, S.J., Spong, G., Russell, A.F., Jordan, N.R., Bennett, N.C., Sharpe, L.L., Manser, M.B., 2006. Intrasexual competition and sexual selection in cooperative mammals. Nature 444, 1065–1068.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
Segura, J., Hawkins, C.F., 2005. CMOS Electronics. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.
An edited book
Raghavendra, P., Raskhodnikova, S., Jansen, K., Rolim, J.D.P. (Eds.), 2013. Approximation, Randomization, and Combinatorial Optimization. Algorithms and Techniques: 16th International Workshop, APPROX 2013, and 17th International Workshop, RANDOM 2013, Berkeley, CA, USA, August 21-23, 2013. Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.
A chapter in an edited book
Grossmann, W., Moser, C., 2016. Big Data—Integration and Cleansing Environment for Business Analytics with DICE, in: Karagiannis, D., Mayr, H.C., Mylopoulos, J. (Eds.), Domain-Specific Conceptual Modeling: Concepts, Methods and Tools. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 103–123.

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 Refrigeration.

Blog post
Davis, J., 2015. Doubt Cast On Research Claiming Chimps Can Learn New “Accents” [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/doubt-cast-research-claiming-chimps-can-learn-new-accents/ (accessed 10.30.18).

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
Government Accountability Office, 1995. Remote Radar for Yakima (No. RCED-95-106R). U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation
Spillman, S.A., 2014. Is More Always Better: Comparing the Effects of Single and Multiple Learning Channels on Academic Performance (Doctoral dissertation). University of South Florida, Tampa, FL.

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
Perlroth, N., Wines, M., Rosenberg, M., 2017. Little Effort to Investigate in States Targeted by Election Hacking. New York Times A1.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Rodnina, 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Panchanathan and Boyd, 2004; Rodnina, 2013).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

  • Two authors: (Panchanathan and Boyd, 2004)
  • Three or more authors: (Clutton-Brock et al., 2006)

About the journal

Full journal titleInternational Journal of Refrigeration
AbbreviationInt. J. Refrig.
ISSN (print)0140-7007
ScopeMechanical Engineering
Building and Construction

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