How to format your references using the Lubricants citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Lubricants. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Schiermeier, Q. NATO Reform Promises More Publicity for Less Science. Nature 2003, 422, 248.

A journal article with 2 authors

Rossky, P.J.; Walker, G.C. Retrospective. Paul F. Barbara (1953-2010). Science 2010, 330, 1191.

A journal article with 3 authors

Baldwin, M.P.; Dameris, M.; Shepherd, T.G. Atmosphere. How Will the Stratosphere Affect Climate Change? Science 2007, 316, 1576–1577.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Raftopoulou, M.; Etienne-Manneville, S.; Self, A.; Nicholls, S.; Hall, A. Regulation of Cell Migration by the C2 Domain of the Tumor Suppressor PTEN. Science 2004, 303, 1179–1181.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Evans, P.W. Top Hat; Wiley-Blackwell: Oxford, UK, 2010; ISBN 9781444325348.

An edited book

Goldsmith, W. Bioengineering Case Studies: Sustainable Stream Bank and Slope Stabilization; Gray, D., McCullah, J., Eds.; Springer: New York, NY, 2014; ISBN 9781461479956.

A chapter in an edited book

Susperregi, L.; Sierra, B.; Martínez-Otzeta, J.M.; Lazkano, E.; Ansuategui, A. A Layered Learning Approach to 3D Multimodal People Detection Using Low-Cost Sensors in a Mobile Robot. In Ambient Intelligence - Software and Applications: 3rd International Symposium on Ambient Intelligence (ISAmI 2012); Novais, P., Hallenborg, K., Tapia, D.I., Rodríguez, J.M.C., Eds.; Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing; Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2012; pp. 27–33 ISBN 9783642287824.

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 Lubricants.

Blog post

Andrew, E. Explainer: Is The Ebola Virus Mutating? Available online: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/explainer-ebola-virus-mutating/ (accessed on 30 October 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

Government Accountability Office Telecommunications: FCC Needs to Improve Performance Management and Strengthen Oversight of the High-Cost Program; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 2008;

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Rus, E.L. A Grant Proposal for Program “Tech Connect”: Bridging the Generations through Technology Coaching. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach: Long Beach, CA, 2017.

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

Vecsey, G. When Goodell Learned That Life Is No Game. New York Times 2010, SP5.

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	Lubricants
Abbreviation	Lubricants
ISSN (online)	2075-4442
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