How to format your references using the Journal of Fluids Engineering citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Fluids Engineering. 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

[1]

Funk, C., 2011, “We Thought Trouble Was Coming,” Nature, 476(7358), p. 7.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Bartek, J., and Lukas, J., 2006, “Cell Biology. The Stress of Finding NEMO,” Science, 311(5764), pp. 1110–1111.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Marangon, D. G., Vallone, G., and Villoresi, P., 2014, “Random Bits, True and Unbiased, from Atmospheric Turbulence,” Sci. Rep., 4, p. 5490.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Kerssemakers, J. W., van der Molen SJ, Koeman, N. J., Gunther, R., and Griessen, R., 2000, “Pixel Switching of Epitaxial Pd/YHx/CaF2 Switchable Mirrors,” Nature, 406(6795), pp. 489–491.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Valizadeh, P., 2016, Field Effect Transistors, A Comprehensive Overview, John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

[1]

Pardalos, P. M., Rassias, T. M., and Khan, A. A., eds., 2010, Nonlinear Analysis and Variational Problems: In Honor of George Isac, Springer, New York, NY.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Gaaloul, K., and Guerreiro, S., 2015, “A Risk-Based Approach Supporting Enterprise Architecture Evolution,” The Practice of Enterprise Modeling: 8th IFIP WG 8.1. Working Conference, PoEM 2015, Valencia, Spain, November 10-12, 2015, Proceedings, J. Ralyté, S. España, and Ó. Pastor, eds., Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 43–56.

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 Engineering.

Blog post

[1]

Andrew, E., 2014, “Alien-Like Lobster Found In Nova Scotia,” IFLScience.

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

[1]

Government Accountability Office, 1971, Multiyear Leasing and Government-Wide Purchasing of Automatic Data Processing Equipment Should Result in Significant Savings, B-115369, 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

[1]

Ressler, K. M., 2008, “The Path to Leadership for Native American Women at North Dakota Tribal Colleges,” Doctoral dissertation, Capella 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

[1]

Shpigel, B., 2016, “Return of Jets’ Decker Is Clouded by Injury,” New York Times, p. D6.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Fluids Engineering
Abbreviation	J. Fluids Eng.
ISSN (print)	0098-2202
ISSN (online)	1528-901X
Scope	Mechanical Engineering