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

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

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]

Boger, D. L., 2015, “ORGANIC SYNTHESIS. When Sugar Is Not so Sweet,” Science, 350(6258), pp. 275–276.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Szalay, A., and Gray, J., 2006, “2020 Computing: Science in an Exponential World,” Nature, 440(7083), pp. 413–414.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Loeffler, J. M., Nelson, D., and Fischetti, V. A., 2001, “Rapid Killing of Streptococcus Pneumoniae with a Bacteriophage Cell Wall Hydrolase,” Science, 294(5549), pp. 2170–2172.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Jackson, R. B., Banner, J. L., Jobbágy, E. G., Pockman, W. T., and Wall, D. H., 2002, “Ecosystem Carbon Loss with Woody Plant Invasion of Grasslands,” Nature, 418(6898), pp. 623–626.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Bunnell, T., 2016, From World City to the World in One City, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

[1]

Lansiquot, R. D., ed., 2016, Interdisciplinary Pedagogy for STEM: A Collaborative Case Study, Palgrave Macmillan US, New York, NY.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Boadu, M., 2016, “Ethical Dimensions of Corporate Governance Practice in Ghana: Developing a Theoretical Perspective,” Corporate Governance in Africa: Assessing Implementation and Ethical Perspectives, K.E. Howell, and M.K. Sorour, eds., Palgrave Macmillan UK, London, pp. 97–130.

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 Heat Transfer.

Blog post

[1]

Andrew, E., 2014, “When Did Megalodon Disappear From The Oceans?,” IFLScience.

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, 1989, Guaranteed Student Loans: Comparisons of Single State and Multistate Guaranty Agencies, HRD-89-92, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Smith, K. A., 2010, “Impact of Animal Assisted Therapy Reading Instruction on Reading Performance of Homeschooled Students,” Doctoral dissertation, Northcentral University.

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]

Crow, K., 2001, “An Old-Fashioned Leather Bar Looks for a Good Home,” New York Times, p. 146.

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	Journal of Heat Transfer
Abbreviation	J. Heat Transfer
ISSN (print)	0022-1481
ISSN (online)	1528-8943
Scope	Mechanical Engineering Mechanics of Materials General Materials Science Condensed Matter Physics