How to format your references using the Journal of The Textile Institute citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of The Textile Institute. 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:

PaperpileThe citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNoteFind the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and othersThe style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeXBibTeX 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
Sarewitz, D. (2010). World view: Defending democracy. Nature, 465(7298), 546.
A journal article with 2 authors
Cooper, M. A., & Shlaes, D. (2011). Fix the antibiotics pipeline. Nature, 472(7341), 32.
A journal article with 3 authors
Pocock, M. J. O., Evans, D. M., & Memmott, J. (2012). The robustness and restoration of a network of ecological networks. Science (New York, N.Y.), 335(6071), 973–977.
A journal article with 21 or more authors
Woodcroft, B. J., Singleton, C. M., Boyd, J. A., Evans, P. N., Emerson, J. B., Zayed, A. A. F., Hoelzle, R. D., Lamberton, T. O., McCalley, C. K., Hodgkins, S. B., Wilson, R. M., Purvine, S. O., Nicora, C. D., Li, C., Frolking, S., Chanton, J. P., Crill, P. M., Saleska, S. R., Rich, V. I., & Tyson, G. W. (2018). Genome-centric view of carbon processing in thawing permafrost. Nature, 560(7716), 49–54.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
Hull, B. (2010). Manufacturing Best Practices. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
An edited book
Teixeira, P. N., Johnstone, D. B., Rosa, M. J., & Vossensteyn, H. (Eds.). (2006). Cost-Sharing and Accessibility in Higher Education: A Fairer Deal? (Vol. 14). Springer Netherlands.
A chapter in an edited book
Stack, M., Gartland, M., & Keane, T. (2016). Path Dependency, Behavioral Lock-in and the International Market for Beer. In I. Cabras, D. Higgins, & D. Preece (Eds.), Brewing, Beer and Pubs: A Global Perspective (pp. 54–73). Palgrave Macmillan UK.

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 The Textile Institute.

Blog post
Hale, T. (2016, December 16). How To Calm Waves On A Lake With A Spoonful Of Olive OIl. IFLScience; 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
Government Accountability Office. (2001). Financial Management: Misstatements of NASA’s Statement of Budgetary Resources (GAO-01-438). U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation
Keohane, M. F. (2010). Virtual team communication: Perceptions and experiences influencing the use of videoconferencing technology [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Phoenix.

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
Poniewozik, J. (2017, February 15). A Gadget to Slow-Cook, and One to Fast-Forward. New York Times, B7.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Sarewitz, 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Cooper & Shlaes, 2011; Sarewitz, 2010).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

  • Two authors: (Cooper & Shlaes, 2011)
  • Three or more authors: (Woodcroft et al., 2018)

About the journal

Full journal titleJournal of The Textile Institute
ISSN (print)0040-5000
ISSN (online)1754-2340
ScopeGeneral Agricultural and Biological Sciences
Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering
Materials Science (miscellaneous)
Polymers and Plastics

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