How to format your references using the Journal of Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry. 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

1. Gibbs RA. Genome-sequencing anniversary. Bringing genomics and genetics back together. Science. 2011;331:548.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Dragoi G, Tonegawa S. Preplay of future place cell sequences by hippocampal cellular assemblies. Nature. 2011;469:397–401.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Pagel M, Atkinson QD, Meade A. Frequency of word-use predicts rates of lexical evolution throughout Indo-European history. Nature. 2007;449:717–20.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Aarts M, Liu Y, Liu L, Besshoh S, Arundine M, Gurd JW, et al. Treatment of ischemic brain damage by perturbing NMDA receptor- PSD-95 protein interactions. Science. 2002;298:846–50.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Richards SA, Hollerton JC. Essential Practical NMR for Organic Chemistry. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2010.

An edited book

1. Huang X, Zhou J, editors. Information Security Practice and Experience: 10th International Conference, ISPEC 2014, Fuzhou, China, May 5-8, 2014. Proceedings. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Kamat RK, Shinde SA, Shelake VG. Arithmetic Core Design and Design Reuse of Soft IP Cores. In: Shinde SA, Shelake VG, editors. Unleash the System On Chip using FPGAs and Handel C. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2009. p. 81–113.

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 Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry.

Blog post

1. Andrew E. Where Did HIV Come From? [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2014 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/where-did-hiv-come/

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. Statewide Transportation Planning: Surveys of State Departments of Transportation and Regional Planning and Development Organizations (GAO-11-78SP, December 2010), an E-supplement to GAO-11-77. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2010 Dec. Report No.: GAO-11-78SP.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Kurtz WA. Under the Balaclava: A Case Study Examining Habits Within the Identity of Elite Counterterrorists [Doctoral dissertation]. [Washington, DC]: George Washington University; 2017.

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. Grimes W. Eldar Ryazanov, 88, Dies; Famed Russian Director Was a Master of Satire. New York Times. 2015 Dec 1;B14.

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 Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry
Abbreviation	J. Therm. Anal. Calorim.
ISSN (print)	1388-6150
ISSN (online)	1588-2926
Scope	Physical and Theoretical Chemistry Condensed Matter Physics