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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Journal of Thermal Sciences. 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]

C.E. Snow, Academic language and the challenge of reading for learning about science, Science 328 (2010) 450–452.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

S. Mukherjee, K. Orth, Microbiology. A protein pupylation paradigm, Science 322 (2008) 1062–1063.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

D.A. Hansell, D. Kadko, N.R. Bates, Degradation of terrigenous dissolved organic carbon in the western Arctic Ocean, Science 304 (2004) 858–861.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

E.S. Lippmann, A. Al-Ahmad, S.M. Azarin, S.P. Palecek, E.V. Shusta, A retinoic acid-enhanced, multicellular human blood-brain barrier model derived from stem cell sources, Sci. Rep. 4 (2014) 4160.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

R. Pearce, S. Barnes, Raising Venture Capital, John Wiley & Sons Ltd, Oxford, UK, 2006.

An edited book

[1]

A. Díaz Lantada, ed., Microsystems for Enhanced Control of Cell Behavior: Fundamentals, Design and Manufacturing Strategies, Applications and Challenges, 1st ed. 2016, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

W. Haberl, M. Herrmannsdoerfer, S. Kugele, M. Tautschnig, M. Wechs, Seamless Model-Driven Development Put into Practice, in: T. Margaria, B. Steffen (Eds.), Leveraging Applications of Formal Methods, Verification, and Validation: 4th International Symposium on Leveraging Applications, ISoLA 2010, Heraklion, Crete, Greece, October 18-21, 2010, Proceedings, Part I, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2010: pp. 18–32.

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 Thermal Sciences.

Blog post

[1]

A. Carpineti, There Is A Man-Made Barrier Surrounding Our Planet, IFLScience (2017). https://www.iflscience.com/space/there-is-a-man-made-barrier-surrounding-our-planet/ (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, Motor Carriers: Establishing System for Self-Reporting Equipment Problems Appears Feasible, but Safety Benefits Questionable and Costs Unknown, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2016.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

A. Soheili, A transannular Cope approach toward the core structure of isocyclocitrinol, Doctoral dissertation, Columbia University, 2008.

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. Kishkovsky, Surviving With the Moscow Symphony on $5 a Day, New York Times (2000) E2.

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 Thermal Sciences
Abbreviation	Int. J. Therm. Sci.
ISSN (print)	1290-0729
Scope	General Engineering Condensed Matter Physics