How to format your references using the Environmental Fluid Mechanics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Environmental 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	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 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

Petherick A (2010) Chagas disease in the Chaco. Nature 465:S18-20

A journal article with 2 authors

Walsh EC, Stainier DY (2001) UDP-glucose dehydrogenase required for cardiac valve formation in zebrafish. Science 293:1670–1673

A journal article with 3 authors

Francis NJ, Kingston RE, Woodcock CL (2004) Chromatin compaction by a polycomb group protein complex. Science 306:1574–1577

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Hermann JC, Marti-Arbona R, Fedorov AA, et al (2007) Structure-based activity prediction for an enzyme of unknown function. Nature 448:775–779

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Alberts B, Johnson A, Lewis J, et al (2017) Molekularbiologie der Zelle. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany

An edited book

Fontaine P, Ringeissen C, Schmidt RA (2013) Frontiers of Combining Systems: 9th International Symposium, FroCoS 2013, Nancy, France, September 18-20, 2013. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Bateni M, Haghpanah N, Sivan B, Zadimoghaddam M (2013) Revenue Maximization with Nonexcludable Goods. In: Chen Y, Immorlica N (eds) Web and Internet Economics: 9th International Conference, WINE 2013, Cambridge, MA, USA, December 11-14, 2013, Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 40–53

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 Environmental Fluid Mechanics.

Blog post

Andrew D (2016) A Bizarre Foam Blob Is Taking Over A Street In California — Here’s What’s Causing It. In: IFLScience. Accessed 30 Oct 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 (1989) Serious Problems Continue to Trouble the Air Traffic Control Work Force. 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

Hood EP (2015) Male teacher perspective on the recruitment of male elementary teachers: A phenomenological study. Doctoral dissertation, University of Phoenix

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

Novick SM (2016) Flavorful Encores From Jean-Georges. New York Times LI5

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	Environmental Fluid Mechanics
Abbreviation	Environ. Fluid Mech. (Dordr.)
ISSN (print)	1567-7419
ISSN (online)	1573-1510
Scope	Environmental Chemistry Water Science and Technology