How to format your references using the HydroResearch citation style

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

Purnell, B., 2008. New release: the complete guide to organ repair. Introduction. Science 322, 1489.

A journal article with 2 authors

Dagan, T., Martin, W., 2009. Microbiology. Seeing green and red in diatom genomes. Science 324, 1651–1652.

A journal article with 3 authors

Chen, G., Zhuchenko, O., Kuspa, A., 2007. Immune-like phagocyte activity in the social amoeba. Science 317, 678–681.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Mitton-Fry, R.M., Anderson, E.M., Hughes, T.R., Lundblad, V., Wuttke, D.S., 2002. Conserved structure for single-stranded telomeric DNA recognition. Science 296, 145–147.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

First, M.B., Tasman, A., 2006. Clinical Guide to the Diagnosis and Treatment of Mental Disorders. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Gleick, P.H. (Ed.), 2011. The World’s Water: The Biennial Report on Freshwater Resources, The World’s Water. Island Press/Center for Resource Economics, Washington, DC.

A chapter in an edited book

Pongetti, G., Fabbrizioli, A., 2015. Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy, in: Capucci, A. (Ed.), Clinical Cases in Cardiology: A Guide to Learning and Practice. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 41–51.

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 HydroResearch.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2014. Watch SpaceX’s Falcon 9 Rocket Launch LIVE [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/space/live-webcast-spacex-crs-4-launch/ (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, 1992. Comments on JTPA Bills (No. HRD-92-35R). 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

Fregoso, J., 2015. Through the pipeline: Degree aspirations of African American and Latino males enrolled in California community colleges (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, 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

Schwartz, J., 2016. A Hurricane That’s Hard to Predict, Even for a Veteran Storm Watcher. New York Times A19.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Purnell, 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Dagan and Martin, 2009; Purnell, 2008).

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

Two authors: (Dagan and Martin, 2009)
Three or more authors: (Mitton-Fry et al., 2002)

About the journal

Full journal title	HydroResearch
ISSN (print)	2589-7578
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