How to format your references using the The Journal of Technology Transfer citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for The Journal of Technology Transfer. 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

Brand, S. (2007). Earth monitoring: Whole Earth comes into focus. Nature, 450(7171), 797.

A journal article with 2 authors

Campbell, P., & Grayson, M. (2014). Assessing science. Nature, 511(7510), S49.

A journal article with 3 authors

Brooke, J., Rosenbaum, T. F., & Aeppli, G. (2001). Tunable quantum tunnelling of magnetic domain walls. Nature, 413(6856), 610–613.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Simmons, G., Glynn, S. A., Komaroff, A. L., Mikovits, J. A., Tobler, L. H., Hackett, J., Jr, et al. (2011). Failure to confirm XMRV/MLVs in the blood of patients with chronic fatigue syndrome: a multi-laboratory study. Science (New York, N.Y.), 334(6057), 814–817.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Simmons, M., & Dalgleish, E. (2006). Corporate Actions. Oxford, UK: John Wiley & Sons Ltd.

An edited book

Weerasinghe, D. (Ed.). (2009). Electronic Healthcare: First International Conference, eHealth 2008, London, UK, September 8-9, 2008. Revised Selected Papers (Vol. 0001). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Dayal, U., Wilkinson, K., Simitsis, A., Castellanos, M., & Paz, L. (2012). Optimization of Analytic Data Flows for Next Generation Business Intelligence Applications. In R. Nambiar & M. Poess (Eds.), Topics in Performance Evaluation, Measurement and Characterization: Third TPC Technology Conference, TPCTC 2011, Seattle, WA, USA, August 29-September 3, 2011, Revised Selected Papers (pp. 46–66). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

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 Technology Transfer.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015, May 27). Scientists Find Evidence For 430,000-year-old Murder. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/scientist-find-evidence-430000-year-old-murder/. Accessed 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. (2012). Airport Noise Grants: FAA Needs to Better Ensure Project Eligibility and Improve Strategic Goal and Performance Measures (No. GAO-12-890). 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

Shroff, N. (2012). Efficient sensing, summarization and classification of videos (Doctoral dissertation). University of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD.

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

Walsh, M. W. (2016, January 19). Puerto Rico Revises Plan to Reduce Debt as Optimism Dwindles. New York Times, p. B2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Brand 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Brand 2007; Campbell and Grayson 2014).

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

Two authors: (Campbell and Grayson 2014)
Three or more authors: (Simmons et al. 2011)

About the journal

Full journal title	The Journal of Technology Transfer
Abbreviation	J. Technol. Transf.
ISSN (print)	0892-9912
ISSN (online)	1573-7047
Scope	Accounting Business and International Management General Engineering