How to format your references using the Journal of Bio- and Tribo-Corrosion citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Bio- and Tribo-Corrosion. 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

Przeworski M (2011) Genome-sequencing anniversary. The golden age of human population genetics. Science 331:547

A journal article with 2 authors

Pinaud F, Dahan M (2008) Biochemistry. Zooming into live cells. Science 320:187–188

A journal article with 3 authors

Hulleman F, van Kerkwijk MH, Kulkarni SR (2000) An optical counterpart to the anomalous X-ray pulsar 4U0142+61. Nature 408:689–692

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Hagberg CE, Falkevall A, Wang X, et al (2010) Vascular endothelial growth factor B controls endothelial fatty acid uptake. Nature 464:917–921

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Wright JR, Cooper JE (2014) Introduction to Aircraft Aeroelasticity and Loads. John Wiley & Sons Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Gänzle S, Kern K (2016) A ‘Macro-regional’ Europe in the Making: Theoretical Approaches and Empirical Evidence. Palgrave Macmillan UK, London

A chapter in an edited book

Hafner JE (2011) Hermann Grassmann’s theory of religion and faith. In: Petsche H-J, Lewis AC, Liesen J, Russ S (eds) From Past to Future: Graßmann’s Work in Context: Graßmann Bicentennial Conference, September 2009. Springer, Basel, pp 37–47

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 Journal of Bio- and Tribo-Corrosion.

Blog post

Luntz S (2015) Hair Bleach May Have Powered the Origins Of Life. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/chemistry/hair-bleach-may-have-powered-origins-life/. Accessed 30 Oct 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 (1999) Customs Service Modernization: Actions Needed to Correct Serious ACE Management and Technical Weaknesses. 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

Cebada-Ricalde MC (2014) Synthesis and characterization of PANI-coated VGCNFs and evaluation of its use for corrosion inhibition. Doctoral dissertation, Mississippi State University

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

St. John Kelly E (1995) The Storefront Psychic: A Peek Inside. New York Times 131

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	Journal of Bio- and Tribo-Corrosion
ISSN (print)	2198-4220
ISSN (online)	2198-4239
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