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

Nadeau JH (2003) Genetics. Modifying the message. Science 301:927–928

A journal article with 2 authors

Fallani L, Inguscio M (2008) Physics. Controlling cold-atom conductivity. Science 322:1480–1481

A journal article with 3 authors

Kalka MB, Smith AR, Kalko EKV (2008) Bats limit arthropods and herbivory in a tropical forest. Science 320:71

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Fagiolini M, Fritschy J-M, Löw K, et al (2004) Specific GABAA circuits for visual cortical plasticity. Science 303:1681–1683

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Passarelli D (2012) Trading Options Greeks. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Cortés P, Maeso-González E, Escudero-Santana A (2015) Enhancing Synergies in a Collaborative Environment. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Lane T (2014) When Actions Feel Alien—an Explanatory Model. In: Hung T-W (ed) Communicative Action: Selected Papers of the 2013 IEAS Conference on Language and Action. Springer, Singapore, pp 53–74

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

Andrew E (2015) Tiny Beating Hearts Grown In The Lab. In: IFLScience. 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 (1983) [Suitability of the MUMPS Language for Government Agencies]. 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

Dillon M (2014) Active aging program for older adults with early stage dementia. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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

Greenhouse L (2007) Justices Reject Suit on Federal Money for Faith-Based Office. New York Times A18

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
Scope

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