How to format your references using the International Journal of Thermal Sciences citation style

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

G. McDowell, Why not have a life?, Science 349 (2015) 554.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

A. Iwasaki, R. Medzhitov, Regulation of adaptive immunity by the innate immune system, Science 327 (2010) 291–295.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

F.V. Chisari, W.S. Mason, C. Seeger, Virology. Comment on “Specific and nonhepatotoxic degradation of nuclear hepatitis B virus cccDNA,” Science 344 (2014) 1237.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

M. Haumann, P. Liebisch, C. Müller, M. Barra, M. Grabolle, H. Dau, Photosynthetic O2 formation tracked by time-resolved x-ray experiments, Science 310 (2005) 1019–1021.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

S. Mann, Microsoft® SharePoint® Server 2010 Bible, Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, IN, USA, 2010.

An edited book

[1]

A. Vilcinskas, ed., Insect Biotechnology, Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

H. Karray, M. Ellouze, A. Alimi, Indexing Video Summaries for Quick Video Browsing, in: A.-E. Hassanien, J.H. Abawajy, A. Abraham, H. Hagras (Eds.), Pervasive Computing: Innovations in Intelligent Multimedia and Applications, Springer, London, 2010: pp. 77–95.

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 Thermal Sciences.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, It’s Not All About Aliens – Listening Project May Unveil Other Secrets Of The Universe, IFLScience (2015). https://www.iflscience.com/technology/it-s-not-all-about-aliens-listening-project-may-unveil-other-secrets-universe/ (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’s Risk Assessment and Safeguards Management of Chemical and Biological Warfare Research and Development Facilities, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1988.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

M.O. Wead, Fear and Doubt, Doctoral dissertation, University of Maryland, College Park, 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. Williams, Making, and Musing On, an Existential Classic, New York Times (2016) C22.

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 Thermal Sciences
Abbreviation	Int. J. Therm. Sci.
ISSN (print)	1290-0729
Scope	General Engineering Condensed Matter Physics