How to format your references using the Technometrics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Technometrics. 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.
EndNoteFind the style here: output styles overview
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
Segrè, G. (2000), “The Big Bang and the genetic code,” Nature, 404, 437.
A journal article with 2 authors
Ruocco, G., and Fratalocchi, A. (2014), “Period doubling induced by thermal noise amplification in genetic circuits,” Scientific reports, 4, 7088.
A journal article with 3 authors
Chu, R., Reczek, D., and Brondyk, W. (2014), “Capture-stabilize approach for membrane protein SPR assays,” Scientific reports, 4, 7360.
A journal article with 4 or more authors
Bernard, A., Lécuyer, C., Vincent, P., Amiot, R., Bardet, N., Buffetaut, E., Cuny, G., Fourel, F., Martineau, F., Mazin, J.-M., and Prieur, A. (2010), “Regulation of body temperature by some Mesozoic marine reptiles,” Science (New York, N.Y.), 328, 1379–1382.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
Sofronas, A. (2005), Analytical Troubleshooting of Process Machinery and Pressure Vessels, Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
An edited book
Attarian, H. P., and Schuman, C. (eds.) (2010), Clinical Handbook of Insomnia, Current Clinical Neurology, Totowa, NJ: Humana Press.
A chapter in an edited book
Bansal, N., Vredeveld, T., and van der Zwaan, R. (2014), “Approximating Vector Scheduling: Almost Matching Upper and Lower Bounds,” in LATIN 2014: Theoretical Informatics: 11th Latin American Symposium, Montevideo, Uruguay, March 31–April 4, 2014. Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, eds. A. Pardo and A. Viola, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, pp. 47–59.

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 Technometrics.

Blog post
Luntz, S. (2014), “Operator Blew Up Antares Rocket Deliberately,” IFLScience, IFLScience, Available athttps://www.iflscience.com/space/operator-blew-antares-rocket-deliberately/.

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 (2013), Rail Safety: Preliminary Observations on Federal Rail Safety Oversight and Positive Train Control Implementation, Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation
Skutt, S. (2017), “Midlife Metamorphosis: Archetypal Imaginal Psychology in Midlife Rite of Passage,” Doctoral dissertation, Carpinteria, CA: Pacifica Graduate Institute.

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
Greenhouse, L. (2007), “U.S. Supreme Court Supports New York City’s Effort to Collect Taxes on Some U.N. Missions,” New York Times, B5.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Segrè 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Ruocco and Fratalocchi 2014; Segrè 2000).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

  • Two authors: (Ruocco and Fratalocchi 2014)
  • Three or more authors: (Bernard et al. 2010)

About the journal

Full journal titleTechnometrics
AbbreviationTechnometrics
ISSN (print)0040-1706
ISSN (online)1537-2723
ScopeApplied Mathematics
Modelling and Simulation
Statistics and Probability

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