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

Ciesla FJ. 2007. Outward transport of high-temperature materials around the midplane of the solar nebula. Science. 318(5850):613–15

A journal article with 2 authors

Krishnamurthy H, Gouaux E. 2012. X-ray structures of LeuT in substrate-free outward-open and apo inward-open states. Nature. 481(7382):469–74

A journal article with 3 authors

Mookherjee M, Stixrude L, Karki B. 2008. Hydrous silicate melt at high pressure. Nature. 452(7190):983–86

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Furtenbacher T, Arendás P, Mellau G, Császár AG. 2014. Simple molecules as complex systems. Sci. Rep. 4:4654

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Balfour A. 2012. Solomon’s Temple. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd

An edited book

Kumar A, Meshram DS, Gowda K, eds. 2016. Urban and Regional Planning Education: Learning for India. Singapore: Springer

A chapter in an edited book

Dreher M. 2016. Turannis in the Work of Thucydides. In Thucydides and Political Order: Concepts of Order and the History of the Peloponnesian War, eds. CR Thauer, C Wendt, pp. 87–109. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan US

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. Neutron Star is Lord of the Rings. 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. 1998. Transportation Infrastructure: Supplemental Information on the Federal Highway Administration’s Project Selection Process for Five Discretionary Programs. RCED-98-179R, 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

Brown LT. 2009. Identifying potential co-repressors associated with dexamethasone-induced repression of the MUC5AC gene. Doctoral dissertation thesis. George Washington 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

Brantley B. 2017. Thinking Out Loud, But Why? New York Times, April 24, , p. C1

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Ciesla 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Ciesla 2007; Krishnamurthy & Gouaux 2012).

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

Two authors: (Krishnamurthy & Gouaux 2012)
Three or more authors: (Furtenbacher et al. 2014)

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