How to format your references using the Computers and Fluids citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Computers and Fluids. 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

[1]

Cannon B. Sensation and loss. Nature 2013;503:S2-3.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Smith NGC, Eyre-Walker A. Adaptive protein evolution in Drosophila. Nature 2002;415:1022–4.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Casanova-Sáez R, Candela H, Micol JL. Combined haploinsufficiency and purifying selection drive retention of RPL36a paralogs in Arabidopsis. Sci Rep 2014;4:4122.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Manning G, Whyte DB, Martinez R, Hunter T, Sudarsanam S. The protein kinase complement of the human genome. Science 2002;298:1912–34.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Jaffe J. Flip the Funnel. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2010.

An edited book

[1]

Moscovici H. Learn Science, Learn Math, Learn to Teach Science and Math, Homo Sapiens! vol. 5. Rotterdam: SensePublishers; 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Kim K, Park J, Woo W. Marker-Less Tracking for Multi-layer Authoring in AR Books. In: Natkin S, Dupire J, editors. Entertainment Computing – ICEC 2009: 8th International Conference, Paris, France, September 3-5, 2009. Proceedings, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2009, p. 48–59.

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 Computers and Fluids.

Blog post

[1]

Andrew D. Six Different Ways To Think About ‘Extinction.’ IFLScience 2016. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/six-different-ways-to-think-about-extinction/ (accessed October 30, 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

[1]

Government Accountability Office. Federal Student Loans: Education Could Do More to Help Ensure Borrowers Are Aware of Repayment and Forgiveness Options. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2015.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Cady SC. Successful student goal completion: A community college case study. Doctoral dissertation. Capella University, 2013.

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]

Cooper M, Kourlas G. Rockettes’ Big Show For Spring Is Killed. New York Times 2017:C1.

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	Computers and Fluids
Abbreviation	Comput. Fluids
ISSN (print)	0045-7930
Scope	General Computer Science General Engineering