How to format your references using the International Journal of Turbomachinery, Propulsion and Power citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Journal of Turbomachinery, Propulsion and Power. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Svoboda, P. Journal Club. A Molecular Biologist Explores How New Genomic Tools Can Be Applied to Wild Animals. Nature 2010, 465, 529.

A journal article with 2 authors

Wang, D.; Su, G. New Strategy to Promote Conversion Efficiency Using High-Index Nanostructures in Thin-Film Solar Cells. Sci. Rep. 2014, 4, 7165.

A journal article with 3 authors

Pulendran, B.; Palucka, K.; Banchereau, J. Sensing Pathogens and Tuning Immune Responses. Science 2001, 293, 253–256.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Yang, H.G.; Sun, C.H.; Qiao, S.Z.; Zou, J.; Liu, G.; Smith, S.C.; Cheng, H.M.; Lu, G.Q. Anatase TiO2 Single Crystals with a Large Percentage of Reactive Facets. Nature 2008, 453, 638–641.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Huzurbazar, A.V. Flowgraph Models for Multistate Time-to-Event Data: Huzurbazar/Flowgraph Models; Wiley Series in Probability and Statistics; John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ, 2004; ISBN 9780471686569.

An edited book

Jayawickreme, E. Exploring the Psychological Benefits of Hardship: A Critical Reassessment of Posttraumatic Growth; Blackie, L.E.R., Ed.; SpringerBriefs in Psychology; Springer International Publishing: Cham, 2016; ISBN 9783319479873.

A chapter in an edited book

Li, X.-M. Intertwinned Diffusions by Examples. In Stochastic Analysis 2010; Crisan, D., Ed.; Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2011; pp. 51–71 ISBN 9783642153570.

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 Turbomachinery, Propulsion and Power.

Blog post

Carpineti, A. A Planetary Collision May Have Brought Carbon To Earth Available online: https://www.iflscience.com/space/a-planetary-collision-may-have-brought-carbon-to-earth/ (accessed on 30 October 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

Government Accountability Office Automated Systems Security--Federal Agencies Should Strengthen Safeguards Over Personal and Other Sensitive Data; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 1979;

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Oliva, D.A. Technological Mediation: The Implications of Technology on the Human Experience. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach: Long Beach, CA, 2012.

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

Feeney, K. Sand, Surf and Quesadillas. New York Times 2010, NJ8.

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 Turbomachinery, Propulsion and Power
ISSN (online)	2504-186X
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