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

Cowan, J., 2007. Astronomy: a constant surprise. Nature 448, 29.

A journal article with 2 authors

Sutton, P.J., Kusmartsev, F.V., 2013. Gravitational vortices and clump formation in Saturn’s F ring during an encounter with Prometheus. Sci. Rep. 3, 1276.

A journal article with 3 authors

Griffith, S., Goldwater, D., Jacobson, J.M., 2005. Robotics: self-replication from random parts. Nature 437, 636.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Zhisheng, A., Kutzbach, J.E., Prell, W.L., Porter, S.C., 2001. Evolution of Asian monsoons and phased uplift of the Himalaya-Tibetan plateau since Late Miocene times. Nature 411, 62–66.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Fong, A.C.M., Hui, S.C., 2006. Multimedia Engineering. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, England.

An edited book

Roe, A.W. (Ed.), 2010. Imaging the Brain with Optical Methods. Springer, New York, NY.

A chapter in an edited book

McDermott, R., 2009. Prospect Theory and Negotiation, in: Sjöstedt, G., Avenhaus, R. (Eds.), Negotiated Risks: International Talks on Hazardous Issues. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 1–23.

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

Andrew, E., 2015. We Talk To Neil deGrasse Tyson About Mars One, Being A Geek, And How To Get People Excited About Science [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/space/startalk-back-iflscience-catches-neil-degrasse-tyson/ (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, 1991. Tax Systems Modernization: Private Sector Modernization Efforts IRS May Want to Examine (No. GGD-91-133FS). 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

Li, H., 2017. Improvement of Compressive Strength of Oil Well Cement by Agitation (Doctoral dissertation). University of Louisiana, Lafayette, LA.

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

Hodgman, J., 2017. Bonus Advice From Judge John Hodgman. New York Times MM22.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Cowan, 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Cowan, 2007; Sutton and Kusmartsev, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Sutton and Kusmartsev, 2013)
Three or more authors: (Zhisheng et al., 2001)

About the journal

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