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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Thomas, Peter J. 2011. “Cell Signaling. Every Bit Counts.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 334 (6054): 321–322.

A journal article with 2 authors

Traas, Jan, and Teva Vernoux. 2010. “Plant Science. Oscillating Roots.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 329 (5997): 1290–1291.

A journal article with 3 authors

Rand, David G., Joshua D. Greene, and Martin A. Nowak. 2012. “Spontaneous Giving and Calculated Greed.” Nature 489 (7416): 427–430.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Kuriyama, Kenichi, Motoyasu Honma, Takuya Yoshiike, and Yoshiharu Kim. 2013. “Memory Suppression Trades Prolonged Fear and Sleep-Dependent Fear Plasticity for the Avoidance of Current Fear.” Scientific Reports 3 (2013): 2227.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

DiMarzio, J. F. 2016. Beginning Android® Programming with Android Studio. Indianapolis, Indiana: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Rennert, Paul D., ed. 2016. Novel Immunotherapeutic Approaches to the Treatment of Cancer: Drug Development and Clinical Application. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

VanBalkom, W. Duffie, and Mirjana Beara. 2012. “Making or Breaking the Peace: The Role of Schools in Inter-Ethnic Peace Making.” In Peace Psychology in the Balkans: Dealing with a Violent Past While Building Peace, edited by Olivera Simić, Zala Volčič, and Catherine R. Philpot, 75–87. Boston, MA: Springer US.

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. 2014. “Two-Headed Salamander Born In Israel.” IFLScience, IFLScience, December 10. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/two-headed-salamander-tadpole-pops-out-laboratory/.

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. 1998. Federal Research: Observations on the Small Business Innovation Research Program. T-RCED-98-170. 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

Krisher, Jacob. 2017. “Cell-Matrix Interaction: Activation of the MAP Kinase Signaling Pathway in Salivary Gland Cells.” Doctoral dissertation, Southern Illinois University.

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

Shear, Michael D., and Jonathan Martin. 2017. “Trump Welcomes West Virginia Governor to G.O.P.” New York Times, August 3, 2017.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Thomas 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Thomas 2011; Traas and Vernoux 2010).

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

Two authors: (Traas and Vernoux 2010)
Three authors: (Rand, Greene, and Nowak 2012)
4 or more authors: (Kuriyama et al. 2013)

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