How to format your references using the Fluid Dynamics Research citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Fluid Dynamics Research. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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]

Heitman J 2005 Cell biology. A fungal Achilles’ heel Science 309 2175–6

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Boyd R W and Gauthier D J 2009 Controlling the velocity of light pulses Science 326 1074–7

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Charrier I, Mathevon N and Jouventin P 2001 Mother’s voice recognition by seal pups Nature 412 873

A journal article with 99 or more authors

[1]

Béguin P, Nagashima K, Gonoi T, Shibasaki T, Takahashi K, Kashima Y, Ozaki N, Geering K, Iwanaga T and Seino S 2001 Regulation of Ca2+ channel expression at the cell surface by the small G-protein kir/Gem Nature 411 701–6

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Evans P W 2010 Top Hat (Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell)

An edited book

[1]

Jönson G 2005 Urban Transport Development: A Complex Issue ed E Tengström (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer)

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Hoffstein J, Pipher J and Silverman J H 2014 Digital Signatures An Introduction to Mathematical Cryptography Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics ed J Pipher and J H Silverman (New York, NY: Springer) pp 193–205

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 Fluid Dynamics Research.

Blog post

[1]

Andrew E 2015 New Analysis Of Sunspot History Challenges Climate Skeptics IFLScience

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 1983 Corrective Actions Taken or in Process To Reduce Job Corps’ Vulnerability to Improper Use of Contracting Authority (Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Jalali Farahani B 2005 Adaptive Digital Calibration Techniques for High Speed, High Resolution Sigma Delta ADCs for Broadband Wireless Applications Doctoral dissertation (Columbus, OH: Ohio State 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

[1]

Saslow L 2007 Roosevelt District Faces An Uncertain Future New York Times LI2

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	Fluid Dynamics Research
Abbreviation	Fluid Dyn. Res.
ISSN (print)	0169-5983
ISSN (online)	1873-7005
Scope	Fluid Flow and Transfer Processes Mechanical Engineering General Physics and Astronomy

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