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]

J.L. Wood, Organic chemistry: Collaborative synthesis, Nature 509 (2014) 293–294.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

J.F. Alcorn, J.K. Kolls, Physiology. Killer fat, Science 347 (2015) 26–27.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

W. Roseboom, T. Kawabe, S. Nishida, The cross-modal double flash illusion depends on featural similarity between cross-modal inducers, Sci. Rep. 3 (2013) 3437.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

A.J. Dean, D.J. Clark, J.B. Stephen, V.A. McBride, L. Bassani, A. Bazzano, A.J. Bird, A.B. Hill, S.E. Shaw, P. Ubertini, Polarized gamma-ray emission from the crab, Science 321 (2008) 1183–1185.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

A.I. Poltorak, P.J. Lerner, Essentials of Intellectual Property, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2011.

An edited book

[1]

A.K. Schulte, B. Walker-Gibbs, eds., Self-studies in Rural Teacher Education, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Y. Yasukochi, H. Fujii, M.R. Goldsmith, Silkworm, in: C. Kole (Ed.), Genome Mapping and Genomics in Arthropods, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2008: pp. 43–57.

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]

J. Davis, Newly Discovered Species Of Bird In The Galápagos Islands Is Already Extinct, IFLScience (2016). https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/newly-discovered-species-of-bird-in-the-galpagos-islands-is-already-extinct/ (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, Amtrak Training: Improvements Needed for Employees Who Inspect and Maintain Rail Equipment, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1992.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

D.M. Roberts, Resilience in Physically Maltreated Adolescents: Interpersonally Related Protective Factors and Gender Differences, Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University, 2017.

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]

S. Chira, J. Martin, Marchers Map Out Next Steps, New York Times (2017) A1.

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