How to format your references using the Infrared Physics and Technology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Infrared Physics and Technology. 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 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]

M. Scudellari, Drug development: try and try again, Nature 516 (2014) S4-6.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

S. Allesina, S. Tang, Stability criteria for complex ecosystems, Nature 483 (2012) 205–208.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

N.L. Yozwiak, S.F. Schaffner, P.C. Sabeti, Data sharing: Make outbreak research open access, Nature 518 (2015) 477–479.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

S. Baker, J.S. Robinson, C.A. Haworth, H. Teng, R.A. Smith, C.C. Chirila, M. Lein, J.W.G. Tisch, J.P. Marangos, Probing proton dynamics in molecules on an attosecond time scale, Science 312 (2006) 424–427.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

R. Heckman, Designing Platform Independent Mobile Apps and Services, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2016.

An edited book

[1]

M. Kroh, K.M. Reavis, eds., The SAGES Manual Operating Through the Endoscope, 1st ed. 2016, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

X. Xu, N. Tian, Performance Analysis of an M/M/1 Working Vacation Queue with Setup Times, in: W. Yue, Y. Takahashi, H. Takagi (Eds.), Advances in Queueing Theory and Network Applications, Springer, New York, NY, 2009: pp. 65–76.

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 Infrared Physics and Technology.

Blog post

[1]

J. Fang, Newly Discovered Dinosaur had Wings like a Bat, IFLScience (2015). https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/pigeon-sized-dinosaur-had-wings-bat-1/ (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, Survey of the Pricing of a NASA Contract with Eldec Corporation, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1977.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

J. Tetley, An investigation of self-authorship, hope, and meaning in life among second-year college students, Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University, 2009.

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. Barron, Nine Million Desserts, for Gabriel, Michael, Alessandra and More, New York Times (2017) A21.

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	Infrared Physics and Technology
Abbreviation	Infrared Phys. Technol.
ISSN (print)	1350-4495
Scope	Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials Condensed Matter Physics Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics