How to format your references using the Experimental Thermal and Fluid Science citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Experimental Thermal and Fluid Science. 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]

K.C. Burtis, Development. Doublesex in the middle, Science 297 (2002) 1135–1136.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

S. Sachdev, O.A. Starykh, Thermally fluctuating superconductors in two dimensions, Nature 405 (2000) 322–325.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

A.K. Biswas, J. Atulasimha, S. Bandyopadhyay, An error-resilient non-volatile magneto-elastic universal logic gate with ultralow energy-delay product, Sci. Rep. 4 (2014) 7553.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

K.H. Darwin, S. Ehrt, J.-C. Gutierrez-Ramos, N. Weich, C.F. Nathan, The proteasome of Mycobacterium tuberculosis is required for resistance to nitric oxide, Science 302 (2003) 1963–1966.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

M. Ziegler, Geotechnische Nachweise nach EC 7 und DIN 1054, Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany, 2012.

An edited book

[1]

R. Kraus, Phraseological Dictionary English - German: General Vocabulary in Technical and Scientific Texts, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

M. Hordinsky, M. Ericson, Hair Follicle Vascularization and Innervation, in: U. Blume-Peytavi, A. Tosti, R.M. Trüeb (Eds.), Hair Growth and Disorders, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2008: pp. 75–83.

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 Experimental Thermal and Fluid Science.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, Cow Virus Now A Risk Factor For Breast Cancer, IFLScience (2015). https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/cow-virus-now-risk-factor-breast-cancer/ (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, Close Air Support: Upgraded A-7 Aircraft’s Mission Effectiveness and Total Cost Unknown, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1988.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

D.L. Sutton, Preparing instrumental teachers: A resource for volunteer, lay music teachers in Salvation Army churches, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 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]

M. Pilon, Sculptured By Weights And a Strict Vegan Diet, New York Times (2012) B10.

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	Experimental Thermal and Fluid Science
Abbreviation	Exp. Therm. Fluid Sci.
ISSN (print)	0894-1777
Scope	General Chemical Engineering Fluid Flow and Transfer Processes Nuclear Energy and Engineering Aerospace Engineering Mechanical Engineering