How to format your references using the Journal of Tribology citation style

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

[1]

Tredicucci, A., 2003, “Physics. Marriage of Two Device Concepts,” Science, 302(5649), pp. 1346–1347.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Knudsen, B. M., and Andersen, S. B., 2001, “Geophysics. Longitudinal Variation in Springtime Ozone Trends,” Nature, 413(6857), pp. 699–700.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Sun, Z.-D., Takagi, K., and Matsushima, F., 2005, “Separation and Conversion Dynamics of Four Nuclear Spin Isomers of Ethylene,” Science, 310(5756), pp. 1938–1941.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Kumar, E. A., Chen, Q., Kizhake, S., Kolar, C., Kang, M., Chang, C.-E. A., Borgstahl, G. E. O., and Natarajan, A., 2013, “The Paradox of Conformational Constraint in the Design of Cbl(TKB)-Binding Peptides,” Sci. Rep., 3, p. 1639.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Waller, F. J., 2011, Writing Chemistry Patents and Intellectual Property, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

[1]

Whitehorn, M., 2005, Accessible Access 2003, Springer, London.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Bamias, G., Pizarro, T., and Cominelli, F., 2011, “New Paradigms in the Pathogenesis of IBD,” Inflammatory Bowel Disease: Diagnosis and Therapeutics, R.D. Cohen, ed., Humana Press, Totowa, NJ, pp. 41–57.

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 Tribology.

Blog post

[1]

Andrew, E., 2014, “A Woman Has Been Given A New 3D Printed Skull,” IFLScience.

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

[1]

Government Accountability Office, 1975, Federal Materials Research and Development: Modernizing Institutions and Management, OSP-76-9, 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

[1]

Gibson, J. J., 2017, “An Assessment of Factors Relating to High School Students’ Science Self-Efficacy,” Doctoral dissertation, Pepperdine University.

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

[1]

Kenigsberg, B., 2017, “A Watershed Moment of Cinematic Terror,” New York Times, p. C9.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Tribology
Abbreviation	J. Tribol.
ISSN (print)	0742-4787
ISSN (online)	1528-8897
Scope	Mechanical Engineering Mechanics of Materials Surfaces, Coatings and Films Surfaces and Interfaces