How to format your references using the Flow Measurement and Instrumentation citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Flow Measurement and Instrumentation. 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]

B.J. Strasser, Genetics. GenBank--Natural history in the 21st Century?, Science. 322 (2008) 537–538.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

A. Armakolas, A.J.S. Klar, Left-right dynein motor implicated in selective chromatid segregation in mouse cells, Science. 315 (2007) 100–101.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

J.-K. Weng, R.N. Philippe, J.P. Noel, The rise of chemodiversity in plants, Science. 336 (2012) 1667–1670.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

C.-Y. Wong, L.-H. Chung, S. Lin, D.S.-H. Chan, C.-H. Leung, D.-L. Ma, A ruthenium(II) complex supported by trithiacyclononane and aromatic diimine ligand as luminescent switch-on probe for biomolecule detection and protein staining, Sci. Rep. 4 (2014) 7136.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

B.J. Preber, Financial Expert Witness Communication, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2014.

An edited book

[1]

X. Meng, Moving Objects Management: Models, Techniques and Applications, 2nd ed. 2014, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

M.P. Ayres, J.A. Hicke, B.K. Kerns, D. McKenzie, J.S. Littell, L.E. Band, C.H. Luce, A.S. Weed, C.L. Raymond, Disturbance Regimes and Stressors, in: D.L. Peterson, J.M. Vose, T. Patel-Weynand (Eds.), Climate Change and United States Forests, Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 2014: pp. 55–92.

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 Flow Measurement and Instrumentation.

Blog post

[1]

A. Carpineti, Supernova Imposter Has Been Faking It For Longer Than We Thought, IFLScience. (2016). https://www.iflscience.com/space/supernova-imposter-has-been-faking-it-for-longer-than-we-thought/ (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, Highway Trust Fund: Overview of Highway Trust Fund Estimates, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2006.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

B. Jalali Farahani, Adaptive Digital Calibration Techniques for High Speed, High Resolution Sigma Delta ADCs for Broadband Wireless Applications, Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University, 2005.

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. Kishkovsky, For Russia’s Nouveaux Riches, Indoor Plumbing Deluxe, New York Times. (2005) A4.

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	Flow Measurement and Instrumentation
Abbreviation	Flow Meas. Instrum.
ISSN (print)	0955-5986
Scope	Computer Science Applications Electrical and Electronic Engineering Modelling and Simulation Instrumentation

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