How to format your references using the Case Studies in Thermal Engineering citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Case Studies in Thermal Engineering. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and others	The style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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. Seife, NEUROPSYCHOLOGY: Language Affects Sound Perception, Science 290 (2000) 2051b–2b.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

P.J. Pollard, P.J. Ratcliffe, Cancer. Puzzling patterns of predisposition, Science 324 (2009) 192–194.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

D. Logoteta, G. Fiori, G. Iannaccone, Graphene-based lateral heterostructure transistors exhibit better intrinsic performance than graphene-based vertical transistors as post-CMOS devices, Sci. Rep. 4 (2014) 6607.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

K. Brandt, M.F.H. Wolff, V. Salikov, S. Heinrich, G.A. Schneider, A novel method for a multi-level hierarchical composite with brick-and-mortar structure, Sci. Rep. 3 (2013) 2322.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

A. Villarroel, Practical Clinical Epidemiology for the Veterinarian, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2015.

An edited book

[1]

R.T. Ionescu, Knowledge Transfer between Computer Vision and Text Mining: Similarity-based Learning Approaches, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

E. Glas, On the Role of Thought-Experiments in Mathematical Discovery, in: J. Meheus, T. Nickles (Eds.), Models of Discovery and Creativity, Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 2009: pp. 57–64.

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 Case Studies in Thermal Engineering.

Blog post

[1]

J. Fang, Scarlet Kingsnake Still Mimics Extinct Venomous Species, IFLScience (2014). https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/scarlet-kingsnake-still-mimics-extinct-venomous-species/ (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, Telecommunications: Preliminary Observations about Consumer Satisfaction and Problems with Wireless Phone Service and FCC’s Efforts to Assist Consumers with Complaints, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2009.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

K.R. Shelby, Systems Engineering Knowledge Asset (SEKA) Management for Higher Performing Engineering Teams: People, Process and Technology toward Effective Knowledge-Workers, Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University, 2013.

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]

B. Protess, D. Ivory, S. Eder, In Age of Trump, Hard Right Turn On Social Issues, New York Times (2017) A1.

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	Case Studies in Thermal Engineering
Abbreviation	Case Stud. Therm. Eng.
ISSN (print)	2214-157X
Scope	Fluid Flow and Transfer Processes Engineering (miscellaneous)