How to format your references using the Acta hydrotechnica citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Acta hydrotechnica. 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

Clack, J. A. (2015). Evolutionary biology: The origin of terrestrial hearing. Nature 519(7542), 168–169.

A journal article with 2 authors

Ekert, A., Renner, R. (2014). The ultimate physical limits of privacy. Nature 507(7493), 443–447.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bielawski, C. W., Benitez, D., Grubbs, R. H. (2002). An “endless” route to cyclic polymers. Science 297(5589), 2041–2044.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Wang, X., Allen, W. E., Wright, M. A., Sylwestrak, E. L., Samusik, N., Vesuna, S., Evans, K., Liu, C., Ramakrishnan, C., Liu, J., Nolan, G. P., Bava, F.-A., Deisseroth, K. (2018). Three-dimensional intact-tissue sequencing of single-cell transcriptional states. Science 361(6400).

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Zito, R. (2011). Electrochemical Water Processing. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Aher, M., Hole, D., Jeřábek, E., Kupke, C. (Eds.) (2015). Logic, Language, and Computation: 10th International Tbilisi Symposium on Logic, Language, and Computation, TbiLLC 2013, Gudauri, Georgia, September 23-27, 2013. Revised Selected Papers, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Harness, M., Yamagata-Lynch, L. C. (2016). Systemic Tensions in American Teacher Unions, in: Gedera, D. S. P., Williams, P. J. (Eds.), Activity Theory in Education: Research and Practice. SensePublishers, Rotterdam, 71–85.

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 Acta hydrotechnica.

Blog post

Luntz, S. (2015). The Strange History and Future of Chlamydia Vaccines [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/strange-history-and-future-chlamydia-vaccines/ (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 (1995). Federal Family Education Loan Information System: Weak Computer Controls Increase Risk of Unauthorized Access to Sensitive Data (No. AIMD-95-117). 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

Simone, P. S. (2012). A mixed methods study of culturally proficient practices in an elementary school (Doctoral dissertation). Pepperdine University, Malibu, 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

Kounios, J. (2017). Eureka? Yes, Eureka! New York Times SR6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Clack, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Clack, 2015; Ekert and Renner, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Ekert and Renner, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Wang et al., 2018)

About the journal

Full journal title	Acta hydrotechnica
ISSN (print)	0352-3551
ISSN (online)	1581-0267
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