How to format your references using the Computational Thermal Sciences: An International Journal citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Computational Thermal Sciences: An International Journal (CTS). 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

Brugger, P., Animal Behavior. Chicks with a Number Sense, Science (New York, N.Y.), vol. 347, no. 6221, pp. 477–78, January 30, 2015.

A journal article with 2 authors

Zimmerman, A. W. and Connors, S. L., Neuroscience. Could Autism Be Treated Prenatally?, Science (New York, N.Y.), vol. 343, no. 6171, pp. 620–21, February 7, 2014.

A journal article with 3 authors

Jiang, G., Kennedy, M. J. and Christie-Blick, N., Stable Isotopic Evidence for Methane Seeps in Neoproterozoic Postglacial Cap Carbonates, Nature, vol. 426, no. 6968, pp. 822–26, December 18, 2003.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Dermitzakis, E. T., Reymond, A., Scamuffa, N., Ucla, C., Kirkness, E., Rossier, C. and Antonarakis, S. E., Evolutionary Discrimination of Mammalian Conserved Non-Genic Sequences (CNGs), Science (New York, N.Y.), vol. 302, no. 5647, pp. 1033–35, November 7, 2003.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Morris, M., Concise Dictionary of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011.

An edited book

Geroimenko, V. and Chen, C. Eds., Visualizing the Semantic Web: XML-Based Internet and Information Visualization, London: Springer, XIV, 248 p. 108 illus., 70 illus. in color, 2006.

A chapter in an edited book

Turner, J. H., Gelasco, A. K., Ayiku, H. B., Coaxum, S. D., Arthur, J. M. and Garnovskaya, M. N., 5-HT Receptor Signal Transduction Pathways, in The Serotonin Receptors: From Molecular Pharmacology to Human Therapeutics, B. L. Roth, Ed., Totowa, NJ: Humana Press, pp. 143–206, 2006.

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 Computational Thermal Sciences: An International Journal.

Blog post

Andrew, E., No, The World Isn’t Going To End In September 2015, IFLScience, June 12, 2015.

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, International Aviation: DOT’s Efforts to Increase U.S. Airlines’ Access to International Markets, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, T-RCED-96-32, Mar. 14, 1996.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Castiglione, A., Counterproductive Work Behaviors: The Role of Employee Support Policies, Envy, and Narcissism, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 2010.

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

Pilon, M., Middle Schools Add Team Rule: Get a Drug Test, New York Times, September 23, 2012.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Brugger, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Brugger, 2015; Zimmerman et al., 2014).

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

Two authors: (Zimmerman et al., 2014)
Three or more authors: (Dermitzakis et al., 2003)

About the journal

Full journal title	Computational Thermal Sciences: An International Journal
ISSN (print)	1940-2503
ISSN (online)	1940-2554
Scope