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

Ravishankara, A. R. (2012). Atmospheric science. Water vapor in the lower stratosphere. Science (New York, N.Y.), 337(6096), 809–810.

A journal article with 2 authors

Ueshima, R., & Asami, T. (2003). Evolution: single-gene speciation by left-right reversal. Nature, 425(6959), 679.

A journal article with 3 authors

Thomas, J. A., Simcox, D. J., & Clarke, R. T. (2009). Successful conservation of a threatened Maculinea butterfly. Science (New York, N.Y.), 325(5936), 80–83.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Snodgrass, C., Tubiana, C., Vincent, J.-B., Sierks, H., Hviid, S., Moissl, R., et al. (2010). A collision in 2009 as the origin of the debris trail of asteroid P/2010 A2. Nature, 467(7317), 814–816.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ruckmongathan, T. N. (2014). Addressing Techniques of Liquid Crystal Displays. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Hargittai, B., & Hargittai, I. (Eds.). (2015). Culture of Chemistry: The Best Articles on the Human Side of 20th-Century Chemistry from the Archives of the Chemical Intelligencer. Boston, MA: Springer US.

A chapter in an edited book

Khaleel, H., Singh, C., White, C., Al-Rizzo, H., & Mohan, S. (2015). Novel Wireless Systems for Telemedicine and Body Area Networks Applications. In G. Plantier, T. Schultz, A. Fred, & H. Gamboa (Eds.), Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies: 7th International Joint Conference, BIOSTEC 2014, Angers, France, March 3-6, 2014, Revised Selected Papers (pp. 52–65). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

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, July 13). Scientists Closer To Bringing A Species Back From Extinction. IFLScience. IFLScience. 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. (1989). Telecommunications: Federal Communications Commission Spectrum Management (No. RCED-89-62). 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

Moreau, G. A. (2009). Touch and psychotherapy: A journey to the depths of the unconscious and back again (Doctoral dissertation). Pacifica Graduate Institute, Carpinteria, CA.

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

Koblin, J. (2016, July 28). Request to Alter Opening Ceremony Collides With Tradition. New York Times, p. B12.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Ravishankara 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Ravishankara 2012; Ueshima and Asami 2003).

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

Two authors: (Ueshima and Asami 2003)
Three or more authors: (Snodgrass et al. 2010)

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