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

Vijayan, M., 2001. Obituary. G.N. Ramachandran (1922-2001). Nature 411, 544.

A journal article with 2 authors

Dalton, R., Abbott, A., 2000. Hawaii reaches for the stars with astronomy master plan. Nature 405, 872.

A journal article with 3 authors

Webster, A.J., Payne, R.J.H., Pagel, M., 2003. Molecular phylogenies link rates of evolution and speciation. Science 301, 478.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Lu, X., Huang, B., Zheng, J., Tao, Y., Yu, W., Tang, L., Zhu, R., Li, S., Li, L., 2014. Decompressive craniectomy for the treatment of malignant infarction of the middle cerebral artery. Sci. Rep. 4, 7070.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Liu, H.H., 2011. Oracle Database Performance and Scalability. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Ramaekers, S., 2012. The Claims of Parenting: Reasons, Responsibility and Society, Contemporary Philosophies and Theories in Education. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht.

A chapter in an edited book

Schmauder, S., Mishnaevsky, L., Jr, 2008. Complex, Graded and Interpenetrating Microstructures, in: Mishnaevsky, L. (Ed.), Micromechanics and Nanosimulation of Metals and Composites: Advanced Methods and Theoretical Concepts. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 213–310.

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., 2016. Human Embryos Grown In Lab For Record Period Of Time [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/human-embryos-grown-lab-record-period-time/ (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, 2003. Pipeline Safety: Systematic Process Needed to Evaluate Outcomes of Research and Development Program (No. GAO-03-746). 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

Zhang, X., 2012. Electroweak interactions and the delta resonance in a chiral effective field theory for nuclei (Doctoral dissertation). Indiana University, Bloomington, IN.

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

Rothenberg, B., 2017. An Upstart Relishes, and Rues, a Showcase. New York Times B13.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Vijayan, 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Dalton and Abbott, 2000; Vijayan, 2001).

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

Two authors: (Dalton and Abbott, 2000)
Three or more authors: (Lu 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

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