How to format your references using the Thermochimica Acta citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Thermochimica Acta. 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]

T. Reichhardt, Discovery of giant asteroid gives Pluto a rocky outlook, Nature 419 (2002) 546.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

H. Claustre, S. Maritorena, Ocean science. The many shades of ocean blue, Science 302 (2003) 1514–1515.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

I. Ferain, C.A. Colinge, J.-P. Colinge, Multigate transistors as the future of classical metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistors, Nature 479 (2011) 310–316.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

S. Xu, Z. Bai, B. Jin, R. Xiao, G. Zhuang, Bioconversion of wastewater from sweet potato starch production to Paenibacillus polymyxa biofertilizer for tea plants, Sci. Rep. 4 (2014) 4131.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

W. Matthys, J.E. Lochman, Oppositional Defiant Disorder and Conduct Disorder in Childhood, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2016.

An edited book

[1]

P. Pietschmann, ed., Principles of Osteoimmunology: Molecular Mechanisms and Clinical Applications, 2nd ed., Springer, Vienna, 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

A. Harvey, J.L. Pasieka, Sporadic Medullary Thyroid Cancer, in: C. Sturgeon (Ed.), Endocrine Neoplasia, Springer US, Boston, MA, 2010: pp. 57–74.

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 Thermochimica Acta.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, How Jaws Kicked Off Our 40-Year Love Affair With Sharks, IFLScience (2015). https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/how-jaws-kicked-our-40-year-love-affair-sharks/ (accessed October 30, 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

[1]

Government Accountability Office, Immigrant Education: Information on the Emergency Immigrant Education Act Program, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1991.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

C.N. Bailey, The influence of gardens on resilience in older adults living in a continuing care community, Doctoral dissertation, Florida Atlantic 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]

J. Lovell, The World, Still Spinning, New York Times (2013) MM36.

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	Thermochimica Acta
Abbreviation	Thermochim. Acta
ISSN (print)	0040-6031
Scope	Physical and Theoretical Chemistry Condensed Matter Physics Instrumentation