A new form is proposed for equations of state (EOS) of thermodynamic systems in the 3-dimensional Ising universality class. The new EOS guarantees the correct universality and scaling behavior close to critical points and is formulated in terms of the scaling fields only -unlike the traditional Schofield representation, which uses a parametric form.Close to a critical point, the new EOS expresses the square of the strong scaling field Σ as an explicit function Σ 2 = D 2e −1 W (D −e 0 Θ) of the thermal scaling field Θ and the dependent scaling field D > 0, with a smooth, universal function W and the universal exponents e −1 = δ/(δ + 1), e 0 = 1/(2 − α). A numerical expression for W is derived, valid close to critical points.As a consequence of the construction it is shown that the dependent scaling field can be written as an explicit function of the relevant scaling fields without causing strongly singular behavior of the thermodynamic potential in the one-phase region.Augmented by additional scaling correction fields, the new EOS also describes the state space further away from critical points. It is indicated how to use the new EOS to model multiphase fluid mixtures, in particular for vapor-liquid-liquid equilibrium (VLLE) where the traditional revised scaling approach fails.A thermodynamic field is a function of pressure P , absolute temperature T , and the chemical potential µ i of each pure component i in the mixture. For a fluid with C components, the physically realizable thermodynamic states form a (C +1)-dimensional 1 As a result, much of the statistical mechanics literature on critical scaling is written in a "magnetic" terminology. Most of this language is inappropriate in a fluid mixture context. Hence we choose here an independent notation and indicate at times alternative traditional notation in footnotes.2 For a recent verification in case of the Lennard-Jones fluid see Watanabe et al. [58].