How to format your references using the Journal of Enhanced Heat Transfer citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Enhanced Heat Transfer. 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:

PaperpileThe citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNoteFind the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and othersThe style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most reference managers.
BibTeXBibTeX 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
Hoag, H., Tougher Rules Aim to Prevent Gene Flow into Crops, Nature, vol. 422, no. 6928, p. 103, March 13, 2003.
A journal article with 2 authors
Davis, P. M. and Jackson, D. D., Retrospective. Leon Knopoff (1925-2011), Science (New York, N.Y.), vol. 331, no. 6023, p. 1400, March 18, 2011.
A journal article with 3 authors
Maduwage, K., O’Leary, M. A. and Isbister, G. K., Diagnosis of Snake Envenomation Using a Simple Phospholipase A2 Assay, Scientific Reports, vol. 4, p. 4827, April 29, 2014.
A journal article with 11 or more authors
Mou, X., Sun, S., Edwards, R. A., Hodson, R. E. and Moran, M. A., Bacterial Carbon Processing by Generalist Species in the Coastal Ocean, Nature, vol. 451, no. 7179, pp. 708–11, February 7, 2008.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
Pahl, J., Interference Analysis, Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2016.
An edited book
Darie, C., Beginning ASP.NET E-Commerce in C#: From Novice to Professional, Berkeley, CA: Apress, XXVI, 736 p, 2009.
A chapter in an edited book
Zhu, X., Song, B., Ni, Y., Ren, Y. and Li, R., Mobile Internet—From PC-Based Internet to PC-Based Internet and Mobile Internet, in Business Trends in the Digital Era: Evolution of Theories and Applications, B. Song Y. Ni Y. Ren and R. Li, Eds., Singapore: Springer, pp. 63–82, 2016.

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 Journal of Enhanced Heat Transfer.

Blog post
Carpineti, A., Failed Stars Could Reveal New Clues About How Planets Form, IFLScience, September 27, 2016.

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, Vehicle Safety: Technologies, Challenges, and Research and Development Expenditures for Advanced Air Bags, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, GAO-01-596, Jun. 12, 2001.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation
McGrath, P. M., Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act of 2008: A Policy Analysis, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 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
Kishkovsky, S., Slow Down and Hide Your Wallet: Traffic Police Ahead, New York Times, April 26, 2006.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Hoag, 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Hoag, 2003; Davis et al., 2011).

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

  • Two authors: (Davis et al., 2011)
  • Three or more authors: (Mou et al., 2008)

About the journal

Full journal titleJournal of Enhanced Heat Transfer
ISSN (print)1065-5131
ISSN (online)1026-5511
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