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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D.R. Shelly, Migrating Tremors Illuminate Complex Deformation beneath the Seismogenic San Andreas Fault, Nature, 2010, 463(7281), p 648–652.
A journal article with 2 authors
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M.R. Freeman and B.C. Choi, Advances in Magnetic Microscopy, Science, 2001, 294(5546), p 1484–1488.
A journal article with 3 authors
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D. Trail, E.B. Watson, and N.D. Tailby, The Oxidation State of Hadean Magmas and Implications for Early Earth’s Atmosphere, Nature, 2011, 480(7375), p 79–82.
A journal article with 31 or more authors
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H.A. Hafez, S. Kovalev, J.-C. Deinert, Z. Mics, B. Green, N. Awari, M. Chen, S. Germanskiy, U. Lehnert, J. Teichert, Z. Wang, K.-J. Tielrooij, Z. Liu, Z. Chen, A. Narita, K. Müllen, M. Bonn, M. Gensch, and D. Turchinovich, Extremely Efficient Terahertz High-Harmonic Generation in Graphene by Hot Dirac Fermions, Nature, 2018, 561(7724), p 507–511.

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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D. Lacalle and D. Parrilla, “The Energy World Is Flat,” (Chichester, UK), John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2015.
An edited book
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V. Parenti Castelli and W. Schiehlen, Eds., “ROMANSY 18 Robot Design, Dynamics and Control: Proceedings of The Eighteenth CISM-IFToMM Symposium,” (Vienna), Springer, 2010.
A chapter in an edited book
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B. Galanti, D. Gendler-Fishman, and A. Tsinober, Is It Possible to Study Euler (or Inviscid/Purely Inertial) Evolution in Low Reynolds Number Flows?, Advances in Turbulence XI: Proceedings of the 11th EUROMECH European Turbulance Conference, June 25-28, 2007 Porto, Portugal, J.M.L.M. Palma and A.S. Lopes, Eds., (Berlin, Heidelberg), Springer, 2007, p 17–19.

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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S. Luntz, “No, The CDC Is Not Covering Up Evidence That Vaccines Cause Autism,” IFLScience, IFLScience, 2014, https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/no-cdc-not-covering-evidence-vaccines-cause-autism/. 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, “Year 2000 Computing Crisis: Business Continuity and Contingency Planning (Exposure Draft) (Superseded by AIMD-10.1.19),” (Washington, DC), U.S. Government Printing Office, 1998.

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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L.A. Robert, “The Impact of Community-Based Mentoring on African American Boys Using an Attribution-Retraining Curriculum,” (Minneapolis, MN), Capella University, 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
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J.B. Stewart, “Bewitched by the Tesla Story,” New York Times, 2017, p B1.

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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