How to format your references using the European Journal of Mechanics / B Fluids citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for European Journal of Mechanics / B 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	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

[1]

G. Schilling, Spain unveils its eye on the sky, Nature. 460 (2009) 674.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

T. Kleinteich, S.N. Gorb, Tongue adhesion in the horned frog Ceratophrys sp, Sci. Rep. 4 (2014) 5225.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

S. Giovannoni, B. Temperton, Y. Zhao, Giovannoni et al. reply, Nature. 499 (2013) E4-5.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

V. Kellermann, B. van Heerwaarden, C.M. Sgrò, A.A. Hoffmann, Fundamental evolutionary limits in ecological traits drive Drosophila species distributions, Science. 325 (2009) 1244–1246.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

C. Sallaberry, Geographical Information Retrieval in Textual Corpora, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ USA, 2013.

An edited book

[1]

S.T. Dye, ed., Neutrino Geophysics: Proceedings of Neutrino Sciences 2005, Springer, New York, NY, 2007.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

J. Fang, M. Li, P. Shi, Mapping Flood Risk of the World, in: P. Shi, R. Kasperson (Eds.), World Atlas of Natural Disaster Risk, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2015: pp. 69–102.

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 European Journal of Mechanics / B Fluids.

Blog post

[1]

T. Hale, This Optical Illusion Of A Brick Wall Is Really Driving The Internet Nuts, IFLScience. (2016). https://www.iflscience.com/brain/optical-illusion-brick-wall-really-annoying-people/ (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, Department of Energy: Procedures Lacking to Protect Computerized Data, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1995.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

S.C. Leak, Building community capacity to meet the needs of our aging society: Interdisciplinary competency development for professionals, Doctoral dissertation, University of North Carolina, 2010.

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]

J. Williams, Where Everybody Knows Your Name (and Dad’s), New York Times. (2017) C5.

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	European Journal of Mechanics / B Fluids
Abbreviation	Eur. J. Mech. B Fluids
ISSN (print)	0997-7546
Scope	Mathematical Physics General Physics and Astronomy