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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Thermal Spray Technology. 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.
EndNoteDownload the output style file
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
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J. Ruiz, The Stability against Freezing of an Internal Liquid-Water Ocean in Callisto, Nature, 2001, 412(6845), p 409–411.
A journal article with 2 authors
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S.A. Shelke and J.A. Piccirilli, Origins of Life: RNA Made in Its Own Mirror Image, Nature, 2014, 515(7527), p 347–348.
A journal article with 3 authors
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I.W. Bogorad, T.-S. Lin, and J.C. Liao, Synthetic Non-Oxidative Glycolysis Enables Complete Carbon Conservation, Nature, 2013, 502(7473), p 693–697.
A journal article with 31 or more authors
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G.O. Seltzer, D.T. Rodbell, P.A. Baker, S.C. Fritz, P.M. Tapia, H.D. Rowe, and R.B. Dunbar, Early Warming of Tropical South America at the Last Glacial-Interglacial Transition, Science, 2002, 296(5573), p 1685–1686.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
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R.G. Pai MD FACC FRCP Edin and P. Varadarajan MD FACC, “Echocardiography Board Review,” (Chichester, UK), John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2014.
An edited book
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Ø. Grøn, “Einstein’s Theory: A Rigorous Introduction for the Mathematically Untrained,” A. Næss, Ed., 1st ed., (New York, NY), Springer, 2011.
A chapter in an edited book
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D.C. González and R.C. Rios, Fire Danger, Fire Detection, Quantification of Burned Areas and Description of Post-Fire Vegetation in the Central Area of Chile, Earth Observation of Wildland Fires in Mediterranean Ecosystems, E. Chuvieco, Ed., (Berlin, Heidelberg), Springer, 2009, p 55–70.

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 Spray Technology.

Blog post
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E. Andrew, “Captive Orcas Learn To Speak Dolphin,” IFLScience, IFLScience, 2014, https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/captive-orcas-learn-communicate-their-dolphin-mates/. Accessed 30 October 2018.

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
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Government Accountability Office, “Education Discretionary Grants: Awards Process Could Benefit From Additional Improvements,” (Washington, DC), U.S. Government Printing Office, 2000.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation
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H. Dang, “The Cummulative Incidence Estimate versus the Kaplan Meier Method in Medical Research,” (Long Beach, CA), California State University, Long Beach, 2010.

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
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P. Savodnik, “If They Build It, Will The Kardashians Come?,” New York Times, 2013, p MM32.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text

About the journal

Full journal titleJournal of Thermal Spray Technology
AbbreviationJ. Therm. Spray Technol.
ISSN (print)1059-9630
ISSN (online)1544-1016
ScopeMaterials Chemistry
Surfaces, Coatings and Films
Condensed Matter Physics

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