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

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

Overpeck, J.T., 2000. Climate change. The hole record. Nature 403, 714–715.

A journal article with 2 authors

Anfinrud, P., Schotte, F., 2005. Chemistry. X-ray fingerprinting of chemical intermediates in solution. Science 309, 1192–1193.

A journal article with 3 authors

Rajagopalan, J., Han, J.H., Saif, M.T.A., 2007. Plastic deformation recovery in freestanding nanocrystalline aluminum and gold thin films. Science 315, 1831–1834.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Rupert, P.B., Massey, A.P., Sigurdsson, S.T., Ferré-D’Amaré, A.R., 2002. Transition state stabilization by a catalytic RNA. Science 298, 1421–1424.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Castañeda, L.B., Arunachalam, V., Dharmaraja, S., 2012. Introduction to Probability and Stochastic Processes with Applications. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Chapple, D.G. (Ed.), 2016. New Zealand Lizards. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Karimi-Abdolrezaee, S., Eftekharpour, E., 2012. Stem Cells and Spinal Cord Injury Repair, in: Jandial, R., Chen, M.Y. (Eds.), Regenerative Biology of the Spine and Spinal Cord, Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology. Springer, New York, NY, pp. 53–73.

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 Thermal Biology.

Blog post

Andrew, D., 2016. Miniature Black Holes May Be Hitting Earth Once Every 1,000 Years [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/space/miniature-black-holes-may-be-hitting-earth-once-every-1000-years/ (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 1992. Federal Procurements: Comments on Proposed Legislation Affecting Federal Procurements (No. T-OGC-92-3). 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

Castro Deller, E., 2013. Recognizing signs of dementia: A curriculum for child welfare workers (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Barron, J., 2016. Famous for Its Past, a Small New Jersey Town Struggles to Define Its Future. New York Times A17.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Overpeck, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Anfinrud and Schotte, 2005; Overpeck, 2000).

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

Two authors: (Anfinrud and Schotte, 2005)
Three or more authors: (Rupert et al., 2002)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Thermal Biology
Abbreviation	J. Therm. Biol.
ISSN (print)	0306-4565
Scope	General Agricultural and Biological Sciences Biochemistry Developmental Biology Physiology