How to format your references using the Journal of Heat Transfer citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Heat Transfer. 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]

Drell, S. D., 2007, “Obituary: Wolfgang K. H. Panofsky (1919-2007),” Nature, 450(7167), p. 182.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Barve, A., and Wagner, A., 2013, “A Latent Capacity for Evolutionary Innovation through Exaptation in Metabolic Systems,” Nature, 500(7461), pp. 203–206.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Tanimoto, H., Heisenberg, M., and Gerber, B., 2004, “Experimental Psychology: Event Timing Turns Punishment to Reward,” Nature, 430(7003), p. 983.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Reinhart, B. J., Slack, F. J., Basson, M., Pasquinelli, A. E., Bettinger, J. C., Rougvie, A. E., Horvitz, H. R., and Ruvkun, G., 2000, “The 21-Nucleotide Let-7 RNA Regulates Developmental Timing in Caenorhabditis Elegans,” Nature, 403(6772), pp. 901–906.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Sluga, H., 2011, Wittgenstein, Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK.

An edited book

[1]

Wong, P. T. P., and Wong, L. C. J., eds., 2006, Handbook of Multicultural Perspectives on Stress and Coping, Springer US, Boston, MA.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

DiMauro, L. F., and Roedig, C. A., 2014, “Strong-Field Atomic Physics in the X-Ray Regime,” Progress in Ultrafast Intense Laser Science: Volume X, K. Yamanouchi, G.G. Paulus, and D. Mathur, eds., Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 65–76.

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 Heat Transfer.

Blog post

[1]

Andrew, D., 2017, “Seven Things To Keep In Mind If You’re Going To March For Science,” IFLScience.

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, 1992, Earth Observing System: NASA’s EOSDIS Development Approach Is Risky, IMTEC-92-24, 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

[1]

Taylor, M. S., 2015, “Too Close to the Knives: Children’s Rights, Parental Authority, and Best Interests in the Context of Elective Pediatric Surgeries,” Doctoral dissertation, George Washington 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

[1]

Risen, J., and Fink, S., 2017, “Pentagon Unit Considered Establishing a Secret Overseas Prison,” New York Times, p. A19.

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 Heat Transfer
Abbreviation	J. Heat Transfer
ISSN (print)	0022-1481
ISSN (online)	1528-8943
Scope	Mechanical Engineering Mechanics of Materials General Materials Science Condensed Matter Physics