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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Stuart, J.S. A Near-Earth Asteroid Population Estimate from the LINEAR Survey. Science 2001, 294, 1691–1693.

A journal article with 2 authors

Calais, E.; Stein, S. Time-Variable Deformation in the New Madrid Seismic Zone. Science 2009, 323, 1442.

A journal article with 3 authors

Moore, S.W.; Biais, N.; Sheetz, M.P. Traction on Immobilized Netrin-1 Is Sufficient to Reorient Axons. Science 2009, 325, 166.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Fahrer, A.M.; Bazan, J.F.; Papathanasiou, P.; Nelms, K.A.; Goodnow, C.C. A Genomic View of Immunology. Nature 2001, 409, 836–838.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Briffaut, J.-P. E-Enabled Operations Management; John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ, 2015; ISBN 9781119145219.

An edited book

Advances in Depth Image Analysis and Applications: International Workshop, WDIA 2012, Tsukuba, Japan, November 11, 2012, Revised Selected and Invited Papers; Jiang, X., Bellon, O.R.P., Goldgof, D., Oishi, T., Eds.; Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2013; Vol. 7854; ISBN 9783642403026.

A chapter in an edited book

Raj, B.; Venkatraman, B. Overview of Diagnostics and Monitoring Methods and Techniques. In Handbook of Technical Diagnostics: Fundamentals and Application to Structures and Systems; Czichos, H., Ed.; Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2013; pp. 43–68 ISBN 9783642258497.

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

Hamilton, K. You Too Could Be Multilingual – It’s Just About Unlocking The Skills Inside Available online: https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/you-too-could-be-multilingual-its-just-about-unlocking-the-skills-inside/ (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 Mass Transit: Review of the Bay Area Rapid Transit District’s Airport Extension Finance Plan; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 2000;

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Hemschik, T.K. Course Designs, Instructional Strategies, and Support Systems in K–8 Online Education: A Case Study. Doctoral dissertation, University of Phoenix: Phoenix, AZ, 2008.

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

Stewart, J.B. Wells Fargo Case Tests a Get-Tough Approach. New York Times 2016, B1.

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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