How to format your references using the International Journal of Fluid Mechanics Research citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Journal of Fluid Mechanics Research (FMR). 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

Brumfiel, G., Cosmology: Welcome to the Real World, Nature, vol. 426, no. 6968, p. 751, December 18, 2003.

A journal article with 2 authors

Buyx, A. and Tait, J., Ethics. Ethical Framework for Biofuels, Science (New York, N.Y.), vol. 332, no. 6029, pp. 540–41, April 29, 2011.

A journal article with 3 authors

Cooper, T. F., O’Leary, R. A. and Lough, J. M., Growth of Western Australian Corals in the Anthropocene, Science (New York, N.Y.), vol. 335, no. 6068, pp. 593–96, February 3, 2012.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Tegze, M., Faigel, G., Marchesini, S., Belakhovsky, M. and Ulrich, O., Imaging Light Atoms by X-Ray Holography, Nature, vol. 407, no. 6800, p. 38, September 7, 2000.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hewitt, A., Construction Claims & Responses, Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2016.

An edited book

Tandon, R. Ed., Algebra and Number Theory: Proceedings of the Silver Jubilee Conference University of Hyderabad, Gurgaon: Hindustan Book Agency, 412 p, 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

Jiang, X., Schofield, A. J. and Wyatt, J. L., Correlation-Based Intrinsic Image Extraction from a Single Image, in Computer Vision – ECCV 2010: 11th European Conference on Computer Vision, Heraklion, Crete, Greece, September 5-11, 2010, Proceedings, Part IV, K. Daniilidis P. Maragos and N. Paragios, Eds., Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, pp. 58–71, 2010.

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 Fluid Mechanics Research.

Blog post

Luntz, S., Arctic Sea Ice Could Disappear By 2045, IFLScience, November 7, 2016.

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, B-2 Bomber: Initial Flight Tests, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, NSIAD-90-284, Sep. 4, 1990.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Bravo, D., Parents’ Perspectives of Undocumented Students’ Transition from High School, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 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

Urbina, I., A Renegade Trawler, Chased by Eco-Vigilantes, New York Times, July 28, 2015.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Brumfiel, 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Brumfiel, 2003; Buyx et al., 2011).

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

Two authors: (Buyx et al., 2011)
Three or more authors: (Tegze et al., 2000)

About the journal

Full journal title	International Journal of Fluid Mechanics Research
ISSN (print)	2152-5102
ISSN (online)	2152-5110
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