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:

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

Lawrence, P.A., 2002. Rank injustice. Nature 415, 835–836.

A journal article with 2 authors

Jucker, M., Walker, L.C., 2013. Self-propagation of pathogenic protein aggregates in neurodegenerative diseases. Nature 501, 45–51.

A journal article with 3 authors

Robison, B.H., Reisenbichler, K.R., Sherlock, R.E., 2005. Giant larvacean houses: rapid carbon transport to the deep sea floor. Science 308, 1609–1611.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Jørgensen, L.H., Mosbech, M.-B., Færgeman, N.J., Graakjaer, J., Jacobsen, S.V., Schrøder, H.D., 2014. Duplication in the microtubule-actin cross-linking factor 1 gene causes a novel neuromuscular condition. Sci. Rep. 4, 5180.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hossler, F.E., 2014. Ultrastructure Atlas of Human Tissues. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Lee, S., Choo, H., Ha, S., Shin, I.C. (Eds.), 2008. Computer-Human Interaction: 8th Asia-Pacific Conference, APCHI 2008 Seoul, Korea, July 6-9, 2008 Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Hofreiter, B., Huemer, C., 2010. Flexible Workflow Management in Service Oriented Environments, in: Griffiths, N., Chao, K.-M. (Eds.), Agent-Based Service-Oriented Computing. Springer, London, pp. 81–111.

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

Andrew, E., 2013. Binary math was used by Polynesians 300 years earlier than Europeans [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/binary-math-was-used-polynesians-300-years-earlier-europeans/ (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. Weather Forecasting: Unmet Needs and Unknown Costs Warrant Reassessment of Observing System Plans (No. AIMD-95-81). 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

Bryant, D., 2012. A good story changes everything (Doctoral dissertation). Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA.

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

Corkery, M., 2017. Big Banks Pass the Fed’s Stress Tests, Setting Up Large Dividend Payments. New York Times B3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Lawrence, 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Jucker and Walker, 2013; Lawrence, 2002).

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

Two authors: (Jucker and Walker, 2013)
Three or more authors: (Jørgensen et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	International Journal of Refrigeration
Abbreviation	Int. J. Refrig.
ISSN (print)	0140-7007
Scope	Mechanical Engineering Building and Construction