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

Widera, A., 2014. Physics. The advantages of extra entanglement. Science 344, 160–161.

A journal article with 2 authors

Fugmann, S.D., Schatz, D.G., 2002. Immunology. One AID to unite them all. Science 295, 1244–1245.

A journal article with 3 authors

Chou, S.Y., Keimel, C., Gu, J., 2002. Ultrafast and direct imprint of nanostructures in silicon. Nature 417, 835–837.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Szabo, S.J., Sullivan, B.M., Stemmann, C., Satoskar, A.R., Sleckman, B.P., Glimcher, L.H., 2002. Distinct effects of T-bet in TH1 lineage commitment and IFN-gamma production in CD4 and CD8 T cells. Science 295, 338–342.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ventre, D., 2013. Information Warfare. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Gultepe, I. (Ed.), 2007. Fog and Boundary Layer Clouds: Fog Visibility and Forecasting, Pageoph Topical Volumes. Birkhäuser, Basel.

A chapter in an edited book

Panagiotou, N., Zygouras, N., Katakis, I., Gunopulos, D., Zacheilas, N., Boutsis, I., Kalogeraki, V., Lynch, S., O’Brien, B., Kinane, D., Mareček, J., Yu, J.Y., Verago, R., Daly, E., Piatkowski, N., Liebig, T., Bockermann, C., Morik, K., Schnitzler, F., Weidlich, M., Gal, A., Mannor, S., Stange, H., Halft, W., Andrienko, G., 2016. INSIGHT: Dynamic Traffic Management Using Heterogeneous Urban Data, in: Berendt, B., Bringmann, B., Fromont, É., Garriga, G., Miettinen, P., Tatti, N., Tresp, V. (Eds.), Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases: European Conference, ECML PKDD 2016, Riva Del Garda, Italy, September 19-23, 2016, Proceedings, Part III, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 22–26.

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

Fang, J., 2015. Fish Can’t Have Sex With All That Traffic Noise [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/fish-cant-have-sex-all-traffic-noise/ (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, 2003. Bureau of Indian Affairs Schools: Expenditures in Selected Schools are Comparable to Similar Public Schools, But Data Are Insufficient to Judge Adequacy of Funding and Formulas (No. GAO-03-955). 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

Lofton, C.D., 2012. Mid-Career Transitions: A Qualitative Study Examining the Developmental Relationships, Attitudes, Networks, and Strategies of Frontline Workers that Seek Career Development and Advancement (Doctoral dissertation). George Washington University, Washington, DC.

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

Johnson, G., 2010. Den of Antiquities. New York Times BR8.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Widera, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Fugmann and Schatz, 2002; Widera, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Fugmann and Schatz, 2002)
Three or more authors: (Szabo et al., 2002)

About the journal

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