How to format your references using the International Journal of Computational Fluid Dynamics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Journal of Computational Fluid Dynamics. 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

Solomon, Sean C. 2007. “Planetary Science. Hot News on Mercury’s Core.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 316 (5825): 702–703.

A journal article with 2 authors

Logan, Gordon D., and Matthew J. C. Crump. 2010. “Cognitive Illusions of Authorship Reveal Hierarchical Error Detection in Skilled Typists.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 330 (6004): 683–686.

A journal article with 3 authors

Campbell, Charles T., Stephen C. Parker, and David E. Starr. 2002. “The Effect of Size-Dependent Nanoparticle Energetics on Catalyst Sintering.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 298 (5594): 811–814.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Wang, Qin, Jiali Zhao, Ashley E. Brady, Jian Feng, Patrick B. Allen, Robert J. Lefkowitz, Paul Greengard, and Lee E. Limbird. 2004. “Spinophilin Blocks Arrestin Actions in Vitro and in Vivo at G Protein-Coupled Receptors.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 304 (5679): 1940–1944.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Shi, Zhang-Jie. 2014. Homogeneous Catalysis for Unreactive Bond Activation. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Hawksworth, David L., and Alan T. Bull, eds. 2006. Forest Diversity and Management. Vol. 2. Topics in Biodiversity and Conservation. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Jones, Derek. 2007. “Dermal Fillers.” In Facial Rejuvenation: A Total Approach, edited by David J. Goldberg, 105–123. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

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 International Journal of Computational Fluid Dynamics.

Blog post

Andrew, Elise. 2014. “Where Have The Stars Gone?” IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/missing-stars-confound-globular-cluster-formation-theories/.

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. 2003. University Research: Most Federal Agencies Need to Better Protect against Financial Conflicts of Interest. GAO-04-31. 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

Liang, Mai. 2012. “Information, Communication and Wayfinding: Technology Shows Us the World.” Doctoral dissertation, Long Beach, CA: California State University, Long Beach.

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

Greenhouse, Linda. 2007. “Trying to Decipher the Justices on the Current State of the Death Penalty.” New York Times, October 19.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Solomon 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Solomon 2007; Logan and Crump 2010).

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

Two authors: (Logan and Crump 2010)
Three authors: (Campbell, Parker, and Starr 2002)
4 or more authors: (Wang et al. 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	International Journal of Computational Fluid Dynamics
Abbreviation	Int. J. Comut. Fluid Dyn.
ISSN (print)	1061-8562
ISSN (online)	1029-0257
Scope	Energy Engineering and Power Technology Aerospace Engineering Computational Mechanics Mechanical Engineering Mechanics of Materials Condensed Matter Physics