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]

V. Marx, Epigenetics: Reading the second genomic code, Nature. 491 (2012) 143–147.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

M.C. Ranen, S.B. Jacobsen, Barium isotopes in chondritic meteorites: implications for planetary reservoir models, Science. 314 (2006) 809–812.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

R. Biek, A.J. Drummond, M. Poss, A virus reveals population structure and recent demographic history of its carnivore host, Science. 311 (2006) 538–541.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

V. Antoci, G. Handler, T.L. Campante, A.O. Thygesen, A. Moya, T. Kallinger, D. Stello, A. Grigahcène, H. Kjeldsen, T.R. Bedding, T. Lüftinger, J. Christensen-Dalsgaard, G. Catanzaro, A. Frasca, P. De Cat, K. Uytterhoeven, H. Bruntt, G. Houdek, D.W. Kurtz, P. Lenz, A. Kaiser, J. Van Cleve, C. Allen, B.D. Clarke, The excitation of solar-like oscillations in a δSct star by efficient envelope convection, Nature. 477 (2011) 570–573.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

J. van Gumster, R. Shimonski, GIMP Bible, Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, IN, USA, 2010.

An edited book

[1]

M. Ochs, Radionuclide and Metal Sorption on Cement and Concrete, 1st ed. 2016, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

P. Baker, Z.R. Dai, J. Grabowski, Ø. Haugen, I. Schieferdecker, C. Williams, Component and Integration Level Testing, in: Z.R. Dai, J. Grabowski, Ø. Haugen, I. Schieferdecker, C. Williams (Eds.), Model-Driven Testing, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2007: pp. 63–69.

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, UK Lunar Mission Can Commence After Exceeding Crowdfunding Goal, IFLScience. (2014). https://www.iflscience.com/space/uk-lunar-mission-can-commence-after-exceeding-crowdfunding-goal/ (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, Chemical Assessments: An Agencywide Strategy May Help EPA Address Unmet Needs for Integrated Risk Information System Assessments, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2013.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

A.N. Chryssis, Design and fabrication of high-performance interband cascade tunable external cavity lasers, Doctoral dissertation, University of Maryland, College Park, 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. Schwirtz, M. Winerip, In Beatings, Inmates Feared a ‘Captain America,’ New York Times. (2015) 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