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:

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

Figer, D. F. (2005), “An upper limit to the masses of stars,” Nature, 434, 192–194.

A journal article with 2 authors

Sussman, M. R., and Phillips, G. N., Jr (2009), “Plant science. How plant cells go to sleep for a long, long time,” Science (New York, N.Y.), 326, 1356–1357.

A journal article with 3 authors

von Melchner, L., Pallas, S. L., and Sur, M. (2000), “Visual behaviour mediated by retinal projections directed to the auditory pathway,” Nature, 404, 871–876.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Alerstam, T., Gudmundsson, G. A., Green, M., and Hedenstrom, A. (2001), “Migration along orthodromic sun compass routes by arctic birds,” Science (New York, N.Y.), 291, 300–303.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Jevon, P. (2012), Paediatric Advanced Life Support, West Sussex, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Huan, Q. (ed.) (2010), Eco-socialism as Politics: Rebuilding the Basis of Our Modern Civilisation, Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Sinz, W., Hoschopf, H., Gstrein, G., Ellersdorfer, C., Tomasch, E., Feist, F., Kirschbichler, S., Steffan, H., and Darwish, S. M. H. (2013), “Safety Measures for Avoiding or Mitigating the Occupant Exposure in Collisions with Large Animals,” in Advances in Bio-Mechanical Systems and Materials, Advanced Structured Materials, eds. A. Ochsner and H. Altenbach, Cham: Springer International Publishing, pp. 59–79.

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

Andrew, E. (2014), “Scientists Reveal How Microbe ‘Eats’ Electricity,” IFLScience, IFLScience, Available athttps://www.iflscience.com/chemistry/scientists-reveal-how-microbe-eats-electricity/.

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 (2003), Mass Transit: FTA Needs to Provide Clear Information and Additional Guidance on the New Starts Ratings Process, 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

Volle, M. (2017), “Exploring the relationship of meetings to organizational culture and values,” Doctoral dissertation, Malibu, CA: 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

Kishkovsky, S. (2004), “MOSCOW: FABERGÉ DISPLAY,” New York Times, E2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Figer 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Figer 2005; Sussman and Phillips 2009).

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

Two authors: (Sussman and Phillips 2009)
Three or more authors: (Alerstam et al. 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	Technometrics
Abbreviation	Technometrics
ISSN (print)	0040-1706
ISSN (online)	1537-2723
Scope	Applied Mathematics Modelling and Simulation Statistics and Probability