How to format your references using the The Journal of Chemical Thermodynamics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for The Journal of Chemical Thermodynamics. 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]

C. Spielmann, Ultrafast dynamics. Electrons take the fast track through silicon, Science 346 (2014) 1293–1294.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

L.M. Coussens, Z. Werb, Inflammation and cancer, Nature 420 (2002) 860–867.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

T. Grover, D.N. Sheng, A. Vishwanath, Emergent space-time supersymmetry at the boundary of a topological phase, Science 344 (2014) 280–283.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

J. Fellay, A.J. Thompson, D. Ge, C.E. Gumbs, T.J. Urban, K.V. Shianna, L.D. Little, P. Qiu, A.H. Bertelsen, M. Watson, A. Warner, A.J. Muir, C. Brass, J. Albrecht, M. Sulkowski, J.G. McHutchison, D.B. Goldstein, ITPA gene variants protect against anaemia in patients treated for chronic hepatitis C, Nature 464 (2010) 405–408.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

G. Bitton, Wastewater Microbiology, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2010.

An edited book

[1]

Z. Yang, Housing Affordability and Housing Policy in Urban China, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

R. Grünig, D. Morschett, Strategic planning of a domestic company as the starting point for going international, in: D. Morschett (Ed.), Developing International Strategies: Going and Being International for Medium-Sized Companies, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2012: pp. 65–87.

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 The Journal of Chemical Thermodynamics.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, Albert Einstein Told Marie Curie To Ignore The Haters, IFLScience (2014).

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, Aviation Safety: Users Differ in Views of Collision Avoidance System and Cite Problems, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1992.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

D. Hall, Resistance, reluctance, and revelation: Examining faculty perceptions of online learning options at a Faith-Based university, Doctoral dissertation, Pepperdine University, 2015.

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]

M. Billard, Jewelry Born Of Child’s Play, New York Times (2010) E7.

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	The Journal of Chemical Thermodynamics
Abbreviation	J. Chem. Thermodyn.
ISSN (print)	0021-9614
Scope	Physical and Theoretical Chemistry General Materials Science Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics