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]

C. Dennis, Stem-cell reverse angers Australian biologists, Nature 416 (2002) 4.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

H.S. Zaher, R. Green, Quality control by the ribosome following peptide bond formation, Nature 457 (2009) 161–166.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

M. Li, E. Butka, X. Wang, Comprehensive quantification of triacylglycerols in soybean seeds by electrospray ionization mass spectrometry with multiple neutral loss scans, Sci. Rep. 4 (2014) 6581.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

J. Ito, A. Ghosh, L.A. Moreira, E.A. Wimmer, M. Jacobs-Lorena, Transgenic anopheline mosquitoes impaired in transmission of a malaria parasite, Nature 417 (2002) 452–455.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Center for Chemical Process Safety, Guidelines for Defining Process Safety Competency Requirements, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2015.

An edited book

[1]

E. Cancès, Méthodes mathématiques en chimie quantique Une introduction, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2006.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

A. Yarden, S.P. Norris, L.M. Phillips, APL and Reading in Science Classrooms, in: S.P. Norris, L.M. Phillips (Eds.), Adapted Primary Literature: The Use of Authentic Scientific Texts in Secondary Schools, Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 2015: pp. 59–80.

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. O`Callaghan, We’ve Found Liquid Water Flowing On Mars, But We’re Not Allowed To Investigate It, IFLScience (2015). https://www.iflscience.com/space/water-mars-all-good-news-risk-contamination-could-hamper-search-life/ (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, Transportation Coordination: Benefits and Barriers Exist, and Planning Efforts Progress Slowly, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1999.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

R. Howard, Aging well adult day care center, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 2015.

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. Leland, Gloria Steinem Never Stops, New York Times (2016) MB1.

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