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

Lehn J-M (2002) Toward self-organization and complex matter. Science 295:2400–2403

A journal article with 2 authors

Tilman D, Isbell F (2015) Biodiversity: Recovery as nitrogen declines. Nature 528:336–337

A journal article with 3 authors

Wilson AH, Shirey SB, Carlson RW (2003) Archaean ultra-depleted komatiites formed by hydrous melting of cratonic mantle. Nature 423:858–861

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Shen Q, Zhang Q, Shi Y, et al (2018) Tet2 promotes pathogen infection-induced myelopoiesis through mRNA oxidation. Nature 554:123–127

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Holmes JD (2016) Great Myths of Education and Learning. John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Orcutt J (2013) Earth System Monitoring: Selected Entries from the Encyclopedia of Sustainability Science and Technology. Springer, New York, NY

A chapter in an edited book

Vidmar G (2007) Pixelisation-Based Statistical Visualisation for Categorical Datasets with Spreadsheet Software. In: Lévy PP, Grand BL, Poulet F, et al (eds) Pixelization Paradigm: First Visual Information Expert Workshop, VIEW 2006, Paris, France, April 24-25, 2006, Revised Selected Papers. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 48–54

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 E (2014) Watch The ESA’s Ariane 5 Rocket Launch Live! In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/watch-esa’s-ariane-5-rocket-launch-live/. 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 (1969) Comments on NASA Payment for Apollo 11 Recognition Banquet. 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

Borgman GA (2017) Loneliness and the Hermitic Psyche. Doctoral dissertation, Pacifica Graduate Institute

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

Crow K (2003) The Gift Is a Subway Station, But Some Look It in the Mouth. New York Times 145

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

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