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]

E.A. Grove, Neuroscience. Organizing the source of memory, Science 319 (2008) 288–289.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

H.-I. Yang, F.-G. Zeng, Reduced acoustic and electric integration in concurrent-vowel recognition, Sci. Rep. 3 (2013) 1419.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

B. Schmitz, T. Häggström, M. Tassinari, Sediment-dispersed extraterrestrial chromite traces a major asteroid disruption event, Science 300 (2003) 961–964.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

D.A. Sliter, J. Martinez, L. Hao, X. Chen, N. Sun, T.D. Fischer, J.L. Burman, Y. Li, Z. Zhang, D.P. Narendra, H. Cai, M. Borsche, C. Klein, R.J. Youle, Parkin and PINK1 mitigate STING-induced inflammation, Nature 561 (2018) 258–262.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

W. Godwin, International Construction Contracts, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Oxford, 2013.

An edited book

[1]

D.G. Green, Complexity in Landscape Ecology, Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 2006.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

P. Breedveld, Port-based modelling of multidomain physical systems in terms of bond graphs, in: M. Arnold, W. Schiehlen (Eds.), Simulation Techniques for Applied Dynamics, Springer, Vienna, 2009: pp. 141–190.

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, Could Russian Sanctions Restrict US Access To The International Space Station?, IFLScience (2014). https://www.iflscience.com/space/could-russian-sanctions-restrict-us-access-international-space-station/ (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, By Making the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory a Federal Computer Center, the Department of Energy Can Save Millions While Serving Government Agencies, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1978.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

J.A. Davis, Demobilizing the Minors: Examining Compliance with International Child Soldiering Laws, Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University, 2011.

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]

L. Greenhouse, Supreme Court to Determine Fate of Business Tax Credits, New York Times (2005) C3.

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