How to format your references using the Lubricants citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Lubricants. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Marx, V. Cell Communication: Stop the Microbial Chatter. Nature 2014, 511, 493–497.

A journal article with 2 authors

Ortega-Jimenez, V.M.; Dudley, R. Spiderweb Deformation Induced by Electrostatically Charged Insects. Sci. Rep. 2013, 3, 2108.

A journal article with 3 authors

Friedland, J.C.; Lee, M.H.; Boettiger, D. Mechanically Activated Integrin Switch Controls Alpha5beta1 Function. Science 2009, 323, 642–644.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Clubb, R.; Rowcliffe, M.; Lee, P.; Mar, K.U.; Moss, C.; Mason, G.J. Compromised Survivorship in Zoo Elephants. Science 2008, 322, 1649.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Cox, C. An Introduction to LTE; John Wiley & Sons, Ltd: Chichester, UK, 2012; ISBN 9781119942825.

An edited book

Beller, M. Transition Metal Catalyzed Carbonylation Reactions: Carbonylative Activation of C-X Bonds; Wu, X.-F., Ed.; Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2013; ISBN 9783642390159.

A chapter in an edited book

Ermine, W.; Pittman, J. Nikan Oti (the Future): Adaptation and Adaptive Capacity in Two First Nations Communities. In The Economic, Social and Political Elements of Climate Change; Leal Filho, W., Ed.; Climate Change Management; Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2011; pp. 69–80 ISBN 9783642147753.

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 Lubricants.

Blog post

Hale, T. NASA Is Hiring Astronauts, And You Could Apply (accessed on 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 Reply to the Health, Education, and Welfare on Recommendations Made in the GAO Report to the Congress; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 1972;

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

McCorkle, W.B. Tongue, Nib, Block, Bit: Rhetorical Delivery and Technologies of Writing. Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University: Columbus, OH, 2005.

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

Kenigsberg, B. Fangs, Fur and Plenty of Firepower. New York Times 2017, C4.

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	Lubricants
Abbreviation	Lubricants
ISSN (online)	2075-4442
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