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

Gershon, D. Mahoney Centre Set to Tackle Brain Cancer Head On. Nature 2000, 406, 546.

A journal article with 2 authors

Guo, Y.; Wu, S. Quantum Correlation Exists in Any Non-Product State. Sci. Rep. 2014, 4, 7179.

A journal article with 3 authors

Glazier, A.M.; Nadeau, J.H.; Aitman, T.J. Finding Genes That Underlie Complex Traits. Science 2002, 298, 2345–2349.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Kiers, E.T.; Leakey, R.R.B.; Izac, A.-M.; Heinemann, J.A.; Rosenthal, E.; Nathan, D.; Jiggins, J. Ecology. Agriculture at a Crossroads. Science 2008, 320, 320–321.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Cox, I.; Gaudard, M.A.; Stephens, M.L. Visual Six Sigma, Second Edition; John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ, 2016; ISBN 9781118905685.

An edited book

Quantum Interaction: 6th International Symposium, QI 2012, Paris, France, June 27-29, 2012, Revised Selected Papers; Busemeyer, J.R., Dubois, F., Lambert-Mogiliansky, A., Melucci, M., Eds.; Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2012; Vol. 7620; ISBN 9783642356582.

A chapter in an edited book

Raj, S.N.R.; Mahapatra, M.K. On Measuring Productivity Growth in Indian Industry: Analysis of Organized and Unorganized Sector in Selected Major States. In Productivity, Efficiency, and Economic Growth in the Asia-Pacific Region; Lee, J.-D., Heshmati, A., Eds.; Contributions to Economics; Physica-Verlag HD: Heidelberg, 2009; pp. 81–104 ISBN 9783790820713.

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

Andrew, E. Amazing Video Of Tattooing Close Up, In Slow Motion Available online: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/how-does-tattooing-work/ (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 USCIS Transformation: Improvements to Performance, Human Capital, and Information Technology Management Needed as Modernization Proceeds; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 2007;

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Austin, C.A. Intravenous Exposure of Pregnant Mice to Silver Nanoparticles: Silver Tissue Distribution and Effects in Maternal and Extra-Embryonic Tissues and Embryos. Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University: Washington, DC, 2013.

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

Smith, B. Why BuzzFeed Published the Dossier. New York Times 2017, A23.

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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