How to format your references using the Journal of Pressure Vessel Technology citation style

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

Kleypas, J., 2015, “Oceans. Invisible Barriers to Dispersal,” Science, 348(6239), pp. 1086–1087.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Wang, R., and Yan, X., 2014, “Superior Asymmetric Supercapacitor Based on Ni-Co Oxide Nanosheets and Carbon Nanorods,” Sci. Rep., 4, p. 3712.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Mallatt, J., Chen, J., and Holland, N. D., 2003, “Comment on ‘A New Species of Yunnanozoan with Implications for Deuterostome Evolution,’” Science, 300(5624), pp. 1372; author reply 1372.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

King, A., Johnson, G., Engelberg, D., Ludwig, W., and Marrow, J., 2008, “Observations of Intergranular Stress Corrosion Cracking in a Grain-Mapped Polycrystal,” Science, 321(5887), pp. 382–385.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Spence, R., 2008, Introductory Circuits, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., Chichester, West Sussex.

An edited book

[1]

Dey, B., Sorour, K., and Filieri, R., eds., 2016, ICTs in Developing Countries: Research, Practices and Policy Implications, Palgrave Macmillan UK, London.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Cao, W., Zhou, H., Zhou, Z., and Fu, Z., 2012, “An Approach for High Resolution Radar Target Recognition Based on BP Neural Network,” Advanced Intelligent Computing: 7th International Conference, ICIC 2011, Zhengzhou, China, August 11-14, 2011. Revised Selected Papers, D.-S. Huang, Y. Gan, V. Bevilacqua, and J.C. Figueroa, eds., Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 33–39.

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 Pressure Vessel Technology.

Blog post

[1]

Luntz, S., 2016, “Why Does Being A Twin Run In Families?,” 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, 2001, Technology Transfer: DOE Has Fewer Partnerships, and They Rely More on Private Funding, GAO-01-568, 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]

Dillon, M., 2014, “Active Aging Program for Older Adults with Early Stage Dementia,” Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach.

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]

Kenigsberg, B., 2017, “Returning, and Inspiring the Likes of Spielberg,” New York Times, p. C6.

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 Pressure Vessel Technology
Abbreviation	J. Press. Vessel Technol.
ISSN (print)	0094-9930
ISSN (online)	1528-8978
Scope	Mechanical Engineering Mechanics of Materials Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality