How to format your references using the Journal of Thermal Biology citation style

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

Heffernan, O., 2013. The dry facts. Nature 501, S2-3.

A journal article with 2 authors

Cascales, E., Christie, P.J., 2004. Definition of a bacterial type IV secretion pathway for a DNA substrate. Science 304, 1170–1173.

A journal article with 3 authors

Trautt, Z.T., Upmanyu, M., Karma, A., 2006. Interface mobility from interface random walk. Science 314, 632–635.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Kim, S., Kim, S.-J., Kim, K.M., Lee, S.R., Chang, M., Cho, E., Kim, Y.-B., Kim, C.J., Chung, U.-I., Yoo, I.-K., 2013. Physical electro-thermal model of resistive switching in bi-layered resistance-change memory. Sci. Rep. 3, 1680.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Brower, M.C., 2012. Wind Resource Assessment. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Cho, B.-K., Tominaga, T. (Eds.), 2010. Moyamoya Disease Update. Springer Japan, Tokyo.

A chapter in an edited book

Kendall, T., Wolfram, W., 2016. Engagement Through Data Management and Preservation: The North Carolina Language and Life Project and the Sociolinguistic Archive and Analysis Project, in: Corrigan, K.P., Mearns, A. (Eds.), Creating and Digitizing Language Corpora: Volume 3: Databases for Public Engagement. Palgrave Macmillan UK, London, pp. 133–157.

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 Biology.

Blog post

Taub, B., 2016. Dark Net Dealers Are Using US Postal Service To Smuggle Drugs [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/dark-net-dealers-are-using-us-postal-service-smuggle-drugs/ (accessed 10.30.18).

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. Airline Deregulation: Changes in Airfares and Service at Buffalo, New York (No. T-RCED-99-286). 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

Frieberg, A., 2008. The Project of Reconciliation: Journalists and religious activists in Polish -German relations, 1956–1972 (Doctoral dissertation). University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC.

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

Protess, B., 2017. Law Firm Stocks Ranks With Ex-Federal Officials. New York Times B5.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Heffernan, 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Cascales and Christie, 2004; Heffernan, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Cascales and Christie, 2004)
Three or more authors: (Kim et al., 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Thermal Biology
Abbreviation	J. Therm. Biol.
ISSN (print)	0306-4565
Scope	General Agricultural and Biological Sciences Biochemistry Developmental Biology Physiology