How to format your references using the Fluids citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Fluids. 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

Barinaga, M. SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY: Look Before You Leap. Science 2000, 289, 2028.

A journal article with 2 authors

Narayan, A.R.H.; Sherman, D.H. Chemistry. Re-Engineering Nature’s Catalysts. Science 2013, 339, 283–284.

A journal article with 3 authors

Jiang, Y.; Kirmizialtin, S.; Sanchez, I.C. Dynamic Void Distribution in Myoglobin and Five Mutants. Sci. Rep. 2014, 4, 4011.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Yang, Z.; Zhu, Q.; Luo, K.; Zhou, Q. The 7SK Small Nuclear RNA Inhibits the CDK9/Cyclin T1 Kinase to Control Transcription. Nature 2001, 414, 317–322.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Center for Chemical Process Safety Guidelines for Process Safety in Outsourced Manufacturing Operations; John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ, 2000; ISBN 9780470935507.

An edited book

The Biopolitics of Development: Reading Michel Foucault in the Postcolonial Present; Mezzadra, S., Reid, J., Samaddar, R., Eds.; Springer India: New Delhi, 2013; ISBN 9788132215950.

A chapter in an edited book

Gemmeke, T.; Sabry, M.M.; Stuijt, J.; Schuddinck, P.; Raghavan, P.; Catthoor, F. Memories for NTC. In Near Threshold Computing: Technology, Methods and Applications; Hübner, M., Silvano, C., Eds.; Springer International Publishing: Cham, 2016; pp. 75–100 ISBN 9783319233888.

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 Fluids.

Blog post

Davis, J. Doubt Cast On Research Claiming Chimps Can Learn New “Accents” Available online: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/doubt-cast-research-claiming-chimps-can-learn-new-accents/ (accessed on 30 October 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 Intercity Passenger Rail: Issues Associated with the Recent Settlement between Amtrak and the Consortium of Bombardier and Alstom; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 2004;

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Brown, C.E. Sources for the Reevaluation of George Frederick Root’s Career: The Autobiography & a Secular Cantata. Doctoral dissertation, University of Maryland, College Park: College Park, MD, 2013.

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

Kasich, J. Welfare Is Still Broken. New York Times 2016, A19.

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	Fluids
Abbreviation	Fluids
ISSN (online)	2311-5521
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