How to format your references using the International Journal of Pressure Vessels and Piping citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Journal of Pressure Vessels and Piping. 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]

V. Brower, Epigenetics: Unravelling the cancer code, Nature 471 (2011) S12-3.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

N. Sugimoto, N. Nagaosa, Spin-orbit echo, Science 336 (2012) 1413–1416.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

S. Assefa, F. Xia, Y.A. Vlasov, Reinventing germanium avalanche photodetector for nanophotonic on-chip optical interconnects, Nature 464 (2010) 80–84.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Y. Bai, H. Bi, Y. Zhuang, C. Liu, T. Cai, X. Liu, X. Zhang, T. Liu, Y. Ma, Production of salidroside in metabolically engineered Escherichia coli, Sci. Rep. 4 (2014) 6640.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

R.A. Ibrahim, Handbook of Structural Life Assessment, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2017.

An edited book

[1]

V. Cortier, C. Kirchner, M. Okada, H. Sakurada, eds., Formal to Practical Security: Papers Issued from the 2005-2008 French-Japanese Collaboration, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

S.K. Gill, The Complexities of Re-reversal of Language-in-Education Policy in Malaysia, in: A. Kirkpatrick, R. Sussex (Eds.), English as an International Language in Asia: Implications for Language Education, Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 2012: pp. 45–61.

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 International Journal of Pressure Vessels and Piping.

Blog post

[1]

J. O`Callaghan, Europa, Musk, Rosetta: Get Ready For An Amazing Week Of Space News, IFLScience (2016). https://www.iflscience.com/space/europa-musk-rosetta-get-ready-for-an-amazing-week-of-space-news/ (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, DOD Business Systems Modernization: Long-Standing Weaknesses in Enterprise Architecture Development Need to Be Addressed, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2005.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

D.S. Gonzales, Identifying factors and quantifying their impact on transportation costs of pre-processes biomass, Doctoral dissertation, Mississippi State University, 2012.

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. Sisario, The Killers’ 5th Album Tops Billboard Chart, New York Times (2017) 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	International Journal of Pressure Vessels and Piping
Abbreviation	Int. J. Pressure Vessels Piping
ISSN (print)	0308-0161
Scope	Mechanical Engineering Mechanics of Materials General Materials Science