How to format your references using the Journal of Fluids and Structures citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Fluids and Structures. 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

Stierle, A., 2008. Materials science. Tracking corrosion cracking. Science 321, 349–350.

A journal article with 2 authors

Pearson, B.J., Doe, C.Q., 2003. Regulation of neuroblast competence in Drosophila. Nature 425, 624–628.

A journal article with 3 authors

Mathis, D., Vence, L., Benoist, C., 2001. beta-Cell death during progression to diabetes. Nature 414, 792–798.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Ni, X., Wu, Y., Chen, Z.-G., Zheng, L.-Y., Xu, Y.-L., Nayar, P., Liu, X.-P., Lu, M.-H., Chen, Y.-F., 2014. Acoustic rainbow trapping by coiling up space. Sci. Rep. 4, 7038.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Matthys, W., Lochman, J.E., 2016. Oppositional Defiant Disorder and Conduct Disorder in Childhood. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Castellani, L., 2011. Teletrasporto: Dalla fantascienza alla realtà, I blu, Pagine Di Scienza. Springer, Milano.

A chapter in an edited book

D’Alessandro, C., Léautier, F., 2016. Leadership, Spirals, and Trajectories, in: Léautier, F. (Ed.), Cities and Spaces of Leadership: A Geographical Perspective. Palgrave Macmillan UK, London, pp. 54–76.

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 Journal of Fluids and Structures.

Blog post

Carpineti, A., 2017. Ultrafast Camera Caught Light Doing A “Sonic Boom” [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/physics/ultrafast-camera-caught-light-doing-a-sonic-boom/ (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 1988. FAA Appropriation Issues (No. T-RCED-88-32). U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Vento, K.A., 2017. The Effects of Progressive Muscle Relaxation on the Subjective Well-Being of Collegiate Athletes (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Crow, K., 2001. On Once-Bawdy 42nd Street, The Last Dirty Picture Show. New York Times 148.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Stierle, 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Pearson and Doe, 2003; Stierle, 2008).

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

Two authors: (Pearson and Doe, 2003)
Three or more authors: (Ni et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Fluids and Structures
Abbreviation	J. Fluids Struct.
ISSN (print)	0889-9746
Scope	Mechanical Engineering