How to format your references using the Advances in Water Resources citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Advances in Water Resources. 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

Liu, R.C., 2015. Sensory systems: The yin and yang of cortical oxytocin. Nature 520, 444–445.

A journal article with 2 authors

Boles, M.A., Talapin, D.V., 2014. Chemistry. Connecting the dots. Science 344, 1340–1341.

A journal article with 3 authors

Ang, Y.S., Ma, Z., Zhang, C., 2014. Chiral-like tunneling of electrons in two-dimensional semiconductors with Rashba spin-orbit coupling. Sci. Rep. 4, 3780.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Prince, J.A., Rana, D., Matsuura, T., Ayyanar, N., Shanmugasundaram, T.S., Singh, G., 2014. Nanofiber based triple layer hydro-philic/-phobic membrane--a solution for pore wetting in membrane distillation. Sci. Rep. 4, 6949.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Eklund, C., Marks, R.B., Ponnuswamy, S., Stanwood, K.L., van Waes, N.J.M., 2011. WirelessMAN®. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Gornitzka, Å., Langfeldt, L. (Eds.), 2008. Borderless Knowledge: Understanding the “New” Internationalisation of Research and Higher Education in Norway, Higher Education Dynamics. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht.

A chapter in an edited book

Knoll, J., Randrup, J., Fuchs, C., Aichelin, J., Bleicher, M., Bratkovskaya, E., Cassing, W., Danielewicz, P., Ivanov, Y., Kämpfer, B., Ko, C.-M., Larionov, A., Petersen, H., Toneev, V., 2011. Collision Dynamics, in: Friman, B., Höhne, C., Knoll, Jörn, Leupold, S., Randrup, Jorgen, Rapp, R., Senger, P. (Eds.), The CBM Physics Book: Compressed Baryonic Matter in Laboratory Experiments, Lecture Notes in Physics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 531–680.

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 Advances in Water Resources.

Blog post

Andrews, R., 2015. Scientists Can Now Make Leukemia Cells Kill Each Other [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/scientists-can-now-make-leukemia-cells-kill-each-other/ (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, 2006. Commercial Space Launches: FAA Needs Continued Planning and Monitoring to Oversee the Safety of the Emerging Space Tourism Industry (No. GAO-07-16). 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

Thompson, K., 2014. An Introduction to the Cox Proportional Hazards Model and Its Applications to Survival Analysis (Doctoral dissertation). Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, IL.

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

Sisario, B., 2017. After 15 Years, New York Is Back as Grammy Host. New York Times B2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Liu, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Boles and Talapin, 2014; Liu, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Boles and Talapin, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Prince et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Advances in Water Resources
Abbreviation	Adv. Water Resour.
ISSN (print)	0309-1708
Scope	Water Science and Technology