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 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

Pronin, E., 2008. How we see ourselves and how we see others. Science 320, 1177–1180.

A journal article with 2 authors

Over, H., Seitsonen, A.P., 2002. Surface chemistry. Oxidation of metal surfaces. Science 297, 2003–2005.

A journal article with 3 authors

Storch, D., Marquet, P.A., Gaston, K.J., 2005. Ecology. Untangling an entangled bank. Science 307, 684–686.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Lucchetta, E.M., Lee, J.H., Fu, L.A., Patel, N.H., Ismagilov, R.F., 2005. Dynamics of Drosophila embryonic patterning network perturbed in space and time using microfluidics. Nature 434, 1134–1138.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Laster, B., 2016. Professional Git®. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Indianapolis, IN, USA.

An edited book

Joseph, B., 2015. Paediatric Orthopaedic Diagnosis: Asking the Right Questions. Springer India, New Delhi.

A chapter in an edited book

Fred, A.L.N., Lourenço, A., Aidos, H., Rota Bulò, S., Rebagliati, N., Figueiredo, M.A.T., Pelillo, M., 2013. Learning Similarities from Examples Under the Evidence Accumulation Clustering Paradigm, in: Pelillo, M. (Ed.), Similarity-Based Pattern Analysis and Recognition. Springer, London, pp. 85–117.

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., 2014. Spiders use electricity to catch prey and airborne particulates [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/spiders-use-electricity-catch-prey-and-airborne-particulates/ (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, 1973. Examination Into Certain Contract Costs for the E-2C Aircraft Program (No. B-163058). 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

Marquez, R.A., 2009. Examining coping skills used to deal with daily stressors of law enforcement (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

Saslow, L., 2005. A Rock Club Closes After a Four-Year Run. New York Times 14LI9.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Pronin, 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Over and Seitsonen, 2002; Pronin, 2008).

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

Two authors: (Over and Seitsonen, 2002)
Three or more authors: (Lucchetta et al., 2005)

About the journal

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