How to format your references using the Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics. 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 references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles 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

Dulloo AG. 2002. Biomedicine. A sympathetic defense against obesity. Science. 297(5582):780–81

A journal article with 2 authors

Lee LP, Szema R. 2005. Inspirations from biological optics for advanced photonic systems. Science. 310(5751):1148–50

A journal article with 3 authors

Sanderson MJ, McMahon MM, Steel M. 2011. Terraces in phylogenetic tree space. Science. 333(6041):448–50

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Mosher RA, Melnyk CW, Kelly KA, Dunn RM, Studholme DJ, Baulcombe DC. 2009. Uniparental expression of PolIV-dependent siRNAs in developing endosperm of Arabidopsis. Nature. 460(7252):283–86

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Karmakar NC, Kalansuriya P, Azim RE, Koswatta R. 2016. Chipless Radio Frequency Identification Reader Signal Processing. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc

An edited book

Xiong C, Liu H, Huang Y, Xiong Y, eds. 2008. Intelligent Robotics and Applications: First International Conference, ICIRA 2008 Wuhan, China, October 15-17, 2008 Proceedings, Part II, Vol. 5315. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer

A chapter in an edited book

Pavlopoulos K, Evelpidou N, Vassilopoulos A. 2009. Lacustrine Environments. In Mapping Geomorphological Environments, eds. N Evelpidou, A Vassilopoulos, pp. 99–110. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer

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 Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics.

Blog post

Andrew E. 2015. Biology’s Holy Grail: The Species And Its Controversial Recent History. IFLScience. www.iflscience.com

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. 2000. Information Technology Management: Small Business Administration Needs Policies and Procedures to Control Key IT Processes. T-AIMD-00-260, 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

Pettengill JB. 2010. Elucidating the macro- and micro-evolutionary relationships of the federally listed endangered species Agalinis acuta (Orobanchaceae). Doctoral dissertation thesis. University of Maryland, College Park

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

Lipton E, Protess B, Lehren AW. 2017. Blue-Red Split: From Capitol To 18th Green. New York Times, Sep. 9, , p. A1

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Dulloo 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Dulloo 2002; Lee & Szema 2005).

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

Two authors: (Lee & Szema 2005)
Three or more authors: (Mosher et al. 2009)

About the journal

Full journal title	Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics
Abbreviation	Annu. Rev. Fluid Mech.
ISSN (print)	0066-4189
ISSN (online)	1545-4479
Scope	Condensed Matter Physics