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]

Schilling G. HIGH-ENERGY ASTROPHYSICS: X-ray Satellites Seek Clues to Bursts. Science 2000;290:927.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Bray PS, Anderson KB. Identification of Carboniferous (320 million years old) class Ic amber. Science 2009;326:132–4.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Shin C, Feng Y, Manley JL. Dephosphorylated SRp38 acts as a splicing repressor in response to heat shock. Nature 2004;427:553–8.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Barnett TP, Pierce DW, Achutarao KM, Gleckler PJ, Santer BD, Gregory JM, et al. Penetration of human-induced warming into the world’s oceans. Science 2005;309:284–7.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Schwartz RA, Carew MG, Maksimenko T. Micro Markets Workbook. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2010.

An edited book

[1]

Lollino G, Manconi A, Guzzetti F, Culshaw M, Bobrowsky P, Luino F, editors. Engineering Geology for Society and Territory - Volume 5: Urban Geology, Sustainable Planning and Landscape Exploitation. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

McGoldrick PJ, Keeling KA, Stanbridge A. Motivating Pro-Environmental Behaviors: Utility of the Decisional Balance Scale, Self-Efficacy and Reactance. In: Robinson L Jr, editor. Proceedings of the 2009 Academy of Marketing Science (AMS) Annual Conference, Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015, p. 5–5.

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]

O`Callaghan J. Project Blue Aims To Take The First Image Of A Nearby Earth-Like World. IFLScience 2016. https://www.iflscience.com/space/project-blue-aims-to-take-the-first-image-of-a-nearby-earthlike-world/ (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. Provisions of S. 821, a Bill To Provide for Authorization of Appropriations for the Federal Communications Commission. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1981.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Rivers M. Bridging the knowledge gap between the Baby Boomers and the multigenerations. Doctoral dissertation. Capella University, 2012.

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]

Novick SM. Satisfying the Sweet (and Savory) Tooth. New York Times 2016:LI8.

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