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

Myers, E.G., 2014. Fundamental constants: The teamwork of precision. Nature 506, 440–441.

A journal article with 2 authors

Martin, S.G., St Johnston, D., 2003. A role for Drosophila LKB1 in anterior-posterior axis formation and epithelial polarity. Nature 421, 379–384.

A journal article with 3 authors

Domnisoru, C., Kinkhabwala, A.A., Tank, D.W., 2013. Membrane potential dynamics of grid cells. Nature 495, 199–204.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Yang, H., Li, J.-J., Liu, S., Zhao, J., Jiang, Y.-J., Song, A.-X., Hu, H.-Y., 2014. Aggregation of polyglutamine-expanded ataxin-3 sequesters its specific interacting partners into inclusions: implication in a loss-of-function pathology. Sci. Rep. 4, 6410.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kampen, T.U., 2010. Low Molecular Weight Organic Semiconductors. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany.

An edited book

Probst, C.W., Hankin, C., Hansen, R.R. (Eds.), 2016. Semantics, Logics, and Calculi: Essays Dedicated to Hanne Riis Nielson and Flemming Nielson on the Occasion of Their 60th Birthdays, 1st ed. 2016. ed, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

von Oertzen, W., Milin, M., 2014. Covalent Binding on the Femtometer Scale: Nuclear Molecules, in: Beck, C. (Ed.), Clusters in Nuclei, Volume 3, Lecture Notes in Physics. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 147–182.

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

Andrew, E., 2015. June Is National Oceans Month [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL (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, 1995. Federal Research: Information on Fees for Selected Federally Funded Research and Development Centers (No. RCED-96-31FS). 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

Waugh, D.L., 2012. From forgotten to remembered: The long process of school desegregation in Chapel Hill, North Carolina and Prince Edward County, Virginia (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

Billard, M., 2010. Nothing Up His Sleeve, but on It. New York Times E6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Myers, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Martin and St Johnston, 2003; Myers, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Martin and St Johnston, 2003)
Three or more authors: (Yang et al., 2014)

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