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

Aebischer, Patrick. 2012. “Philanthropy: The Price of Charity.” Nature 481 (7381): 260.

A journal article with 2 authors

Normile, Dennis, and Richard A. Kerr. 2011. “Breakthrough of the Year. A Disaster and a Warning--but of What?” Science (New York, N.Y.) 334 (6063): 1634.

A journal article with 3 authors

Karakas, Erkan, Noriko Simorowski, and Hiro Furukawa. 2011. “Subunit Arrangement and Phenylethanolamine Binding in GluN1/GluN2B NMDA Receptors.” Nature 475 (7355): 249–253.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Shook, Brett A., Renee R. Wasko, Guillermo C. Rivera-Gonzalez, Emilio Salazar-Gatzimas, Francesc López-Giráldez, Biraja C. Dash, Andrés R. Muñoz-Rojas, et al. 2018. “Myofibroblast Proliferation and Heterogeneity Are Supported by Macrophages during Skin Repair.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 362 (6417).

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Altman, Matthew C. 2011. Kant and Applied Ethics. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell.

An edited book

Carey, Robert M., ed. 2007. Hypertension and Hormone Mechanisms. Contemporary Endocrinology. Totowa, NJ: Humana Press.

A chapter in an edited book

Harel, David, and Yishai Feldman. 2008. “Metodi Algoritmici.” In Algoritmi: Lo Spirito Dell’informatica, edited by Yishai Feldman, 99–119. Unitext. Milano: 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. 2015. “White Shark Populations Are Growing. Here’s Why That’s Good News.” IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/white-shark-populations-are-growing-here-s-why-s-good-news/.

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. 1995. Air Traffic Control: Status of FAA’s Modernization Program. RCED-95-175FS. 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

Tasoff, Alexander J. 2017. “Quantifying the Genetic Capacity of California Grunion (Leuresthes Tenuis) to Adapt to Ocean Acidification.” 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

MacFARQUHAR, Neil. 2017. “Closed Before It Opens.” New York Times, July 10.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Aebischer 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Aebischer 2012; Normile and Kerr 2011).

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

Two authors: (Normile and Kerr 2011)
Three authors: (Karakas, Simorowski, and Furukawa 2011)
4 or more authors: (Shook et al. 2018)

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

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