How to format your references using the Theoretical and Computational Fluid Dynamics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Theoretical and 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Goodman, S.: Pressure grows over US blood ban. Nature. 412, 467 (2001)

A journal article with 2 authors

Cheung, A.Y., Wu H, M.: Plant biology. Pollen tube guidance--right on target. Science. 293, 1441–1442 (2001)

A journal article with 3 authors

Chen, A., Wang, S., Pacala, S.W.: Comment on “Global correlations in tropical tree species richness and abundance reject neutrality.” Science. 336, 1639; author reply 1639 (2012)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Li, N., Wang, H., Misra, A., Wang, J.: In situ nanoindentation study of plastic co-deformation in Al-TiN nanocomposites. Sci. Rep. 4, 6633 (2014)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ponniah, P.: Data Warehousing Fundamentals for it Professionals. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ (2010)

An edited book

Rosenblatt, J., Podack, E.R., Barber, G.N., Ochoa, A. eds: Advances in Tumor Immunology and Immunotherapy. Springer, New York, NY (2014)

A chapter in an edited book

Pereira-Sáez, C.: Philosophical Imperialism? A Critical View of North American Principlist Bioethics. In: Serna, P. and Seoane, J.-A. (eds.) Bioethical Decision Making and Argumentation. pp. 43–56. Springer International Publishing, Cham (2016)

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 Theoretical and Computational Fluid Dynamics.

Blog post

Andrew, E.: The Evolution Of The Y Chromosome

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: A Bibliography of Documents Issued by the GAO on Matters Related to: ADP. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (1981)

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Gossett, J.M.: Autobiographical insights into the spiritual psychologies of Jung and Bion, (2009)

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

Santora, M.: Crash Kills 3 College Students on Medical Mission in Honduras, (2016)

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	Theoretical and Computational Fluid Dynamics
Abbreviation	Theor. Comput. Fluid Dyn.
ISSN (print)	0935-4964
ISSN (online)	1432-2250
Scope	Fluid Flow and Transfer Processes General Engineering Computational Mechanics Condensed Matter Physics