How to format your references using the Experiments in Fluids citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Experiments in Fluids. For a complete guide how to prepare your manuscript refer to the journal's instructions to authors.

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Using reference management software

Typically you don't format your citations and bibliography by hand. The easiest way is to use a reference manager:

PaperpileThe citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNoteDownload the output style file
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and othersThe style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeXBibTeX syles are usually part of a LaTeX template. Check the instructions to authors if the publisher offers a LaTeX template for this journal.
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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
Rosswog S (2004) Astronomy. Short gamma-ray bursts. Science 303:46–47
A journal article with 2 authors
Mittal S, Hafezi M (2015) Materials science: Round the bend with microwaves. Nature 522:292–293
A journal article with 3 authors
Cowen RK, Paris CB, Srinivasan A (2006) Scaling of connectivity in marine populations. Science 311:522–527
A journal article with 5 or more authors
Nielsen KH, Kittel T, Wondraczek K, Wondraczek L (2014) Optical breathing of nano-porous antireflective coatings through adsorption and desorption of water. Sci Rep 4:6595

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
Mahlberg R, Gilles A, Läsch A (2004) Hämatologie. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany
An edited book
Cai G (2011) Unmanned Rotorcraft Systems. Springer, London
A chapter in an edited book
Deb A, Roychoudhury S, Sarkar G (2016) Integration and Differentiation Using HF Domain Operational Matrices. In: Roychoudhury S, Sarkar G (eds) Analysis and Identification of Time-Invariant Systems, Time-Varying Systems, and Multi-Delay Systems using Orthogonal Hybrid Functions: Theory and Algorithms with MATLAB®. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 87–114

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 Experiments in Fluids.

Blog post
Fang J (2015) Corn’s Surprisingly Complicated Voyage Into the American Southwest. In: IFLScience. Accessed 30 Oct 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
Government Accountability Office (1993) IRS Information Systems: Weaknesses Increase Risk of Fraud and Impair Reliability of Management Information. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation
Dahdah S (2008) Modeling an infrastructure safety rating for vulnerable road users in developing countries. Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University

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
Pilon M (2016) Tarnish on the Torch. New York Times BR11

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Rosswog 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Rosswog 2004; Mittal and Hafezi 2015).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

  • Two authors: (Mittal and Hafezi 2015)
  • Three or more authors: (Nielsen et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal titleExperiments in Fluids
AbbreviationExp. Fluids
ISSN (print)0723-4864
ISSN (online)1432-1114
ScopeFluid Flow and Transfer Processes
Computational Mechanics
Mechanics of Materials
General Physics and Astronomy

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