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:

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

U. Lindenberger, Human Cognitive Aging: Corriger La Fortune?, Science, 2014, 346(6209), p 572–578.

A journal article with 2 authors

V. Vlaminck and M. Bailleul, Current-Induced Spin-Wave Doppler Shift, Science, 2008, 322(5900), p 410–413.

A journal article with 3 authors

M.J. Kennedy, D.R. Pevear, and R.J. Hill, Mineral Surface Control of Organic Carbon in Black Shale, Science, 2002, 295(5555), p 657–660.

A journal article with 31 or more authors

M.J. Koss, L. Blecha, P. Bernhard, C.-L. Hung, J.R. Lu, B. Trakthenbrot, E. Treister, A. Weigel, L.F. Sartori, R. Mushotzky, K. Schawinski, C. Ricci, S. Veilleux, and D.B. Sanders, A Population of Luminous Accreting Black Holes with Hidden Mergers, Nature, 2018, 563(7730), p 214–216.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

U. Martinsen, “Kostenrechnung in Der Bauwirtschaft,” (Weinheim, Germany), Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, 2017.

An edited book

K. Sanford, T. Rogers, and M. Kendrick, Eds., “Everyday Youth Literacies: Critical Perspectives for New Times,” (Singapore), Springer, 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

S. Thurner, A Simple General Model of Evolutionary Dynamics, Principles of Evolution: From the Planck Epoch to Complex Multicellular Life, H. Meyer-Ortmanns and S. Thurner, Eds., (Berlin, Heidelberg), Springer, 2011, p 119–144.

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

E. Andrew, “Here Are Five Ways The World Could End,” IFLScience, IFLScience, 2015, https://www.iflscience.com/space/here-are-five-ways-world-could-end/. 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

Government Accountability Office, “Office of Federal Student Aid: Better Strategic and Human Capital Planning Would Help Sustain Management Progress,” (Washington, DC), U.S. Government Printing Office, 2004.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

K.K. Haire, “Elucidation of the Role of Poly(ADP-Ribose) Polymerase in Drug-Induced Toxicity,” (Tampa, FL), University of South Florida, 2015.

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

J. Gavin, “Politics, Passion and No Shirking on Practice,” New York Times, 2017, p C7.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Thermal Spray Technology
Abbreviation	J. Therm. Spray Technol.
ISSN (print)	1059-9630
ISSN (online)	1544-1016
Scope	Materials Chemistry Surfaces, Coatings and Films Condensed Matter Physics