How to format your references using the International Journal of Multiphase Flow citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Journal of Multiphase Flow. 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

Buckingham, S., 2003. Seeing is believing. Nature 425, 211.

A journal article with 2 authors

Killingsworth, M.A., Gilbert, D.T., 2010. A wandering mind is an unhappy mind. Science 330, 932.

A journal article with 3 authors

Dorman, S.N., Viner, C., Rogan, P.K., 2014. Splicing mutation analysis reveals previously unrecognized pathways in lymph node-invasive breast cancer. Sci. Rep. 4, 7063.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Panchal, V., Pearce, R., Yakimova, R., Tzalenchuk, A., Kazakova, O., 2013. Standardization of surface potential measurements of graphene domains. Sci. Rep. 3, 2597.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

MacClancy, J., 2013. Anthropology in the Public Arena. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Talbi, E.-G., Liardet, P., Collet, P., Lutton, E., Schoenauer, M. (Eds.), 2006. Artificial Evolution: 7th International Conference, Evolution Artificielle, EA 2005, Lille, France, October 26-28, 2005, Revised Selected Papers, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Beers, P.J., Veldkamp, T., 2011. For or against innovation? The influence of images, in: van Latesteijn, H., Andeweg, K. (Eds.), The TransForum Model: Transforming Agro Innovation Toward Sustainable Development. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp. 59–72.

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 Multiphase Flow.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2015. Tomorrow’s Technology Will Lead To Sweeping Changes In Society – It Must, For All Our Sakes [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/technology/tomorrow-s-technology-will-lead-sweeping-changes-society-it-must-all-our-sakes/ (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. Transportation Programs: Opportunities for Oversight and Improved Use of Taxpayer Funds (No. GAO-03-1040T). 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

Aiken, J., 2009. Virtually a leader: Mitigating process losses through shared team states (Doctoral dissertation). University of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD.

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

Billard, M., 2010. Think Green and Young. New York Times E6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Buckingham, 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Buckingham, 2003; Killingsworth and Gilbert, 2010).

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

Two authors: (Killingsworth and Gilbert, 2010)
Three or more authors: (Panchal et al., 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	International Journal of Multiphase Flow
ISSN (print)	0301-9322
Scope	Fluid Flow and Transfer Processes Mechanical Engineering General Physics and Astronomy