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

Bobbert, Peter A. 2014. “Applied Physics. Manipulating Spin in Organic Spintronics.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 345 (6203): 1450–1451.

A journal article with 2 authors

Laurance, William F., and Andrew Balmford. 2013. “Land Use: A Global Map for Road Building.” Nature 495 (7441): 308–309.

A journal article with 3 authors

Santos, M. D., S. N. Dorogovtsev, and J. F. F. Mendes. 2014. “Biased Imitation in Coupled Evolutionary Games in Interdependent Networks.” Scientific Reports 4 (March): 4436.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Lockwood, Charles A., Colin G. Menter, Jacopo Moggi-Cecchi, and Andre W. Keyser. 2007. “Extended Male Growth in a Fossil Hominin Species.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 318 (5855): 1443–1446.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Block, Tobias, Helmut Eggert, and Wolfgang Kauschke. 2013. Lager Im Bauwesen. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Stephanidis, Constantine, ed. 2005. Universal Access in Health Telematics: A Design Code of Practice. Vol. 3041. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Hodicky, Jan. 2016. “Autonomous Systems Operationalization Gaps Overcome by Modelling and Simulation.” In Modelling and Simulation for Autonomous Systems: Third International Workshop, MESAS 2016, Rome, Italy, June 15-16, 2016, Revised Selected Papers, edited by Jan Hodicky, 40–47. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

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, Danielle. 2016. “Genetic Studies Reveal Diversity Of Early Human Populations – And Pin Down When We Left Africa.” IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/genetic-studies-reveal-diversity-of-early-human-populations-and-pin-down-when-we-left-africa/.

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. 1990. Tax System Modernization: Status of IRS’ Input Processing Initiative. IMTEC-91-9. 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

Felarca, Clifford U. 2012. “A Burning Problem: Skin Protection Practices among College Nursing Students and Non-Nursing College Students.” 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

Grynbaum, Michael M. 2017. “CNN Severs Its Ties With a Host After His Vulgar Criticism of Trump.” New York Times, June 9.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Bobbert 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Bobbert 2014; Laurance and Balmford 2013).

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

Two authors: (Laurance and Balmford 2013)
Three authors: (Santos, Dorogovtsev, and Mendes 2014)
4 or more authors: (Lockwood et al. 2007)

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