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:

PaperpileThe citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNoteFind the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and othersThe style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeXBibTeX 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
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Lehn J-M (2002) Toward self-organization and complex matter. Science 295:2400–2403
A journal article with 2 authors
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Tilman D, Isbell F (2015) Biodiversity: Recovery as nitrogen declines. Nature 528:336–337
A journal article with 3 authors
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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
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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
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Holmes JD (2016) Great Myths of Education and Learning. John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ
An edited book
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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 titleEnvironmental Fluid Mechanics
AbbreviationEnviron. Fluid Mech. (Dordr.)
ISSN (print)1567-7419
ISSN (online)1573-1510
ScopeEnvironmental Chemistry
Water Science and Technology

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