How to format your references using the Journal of Contaminant Hydrology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Contaminant Hydrology. 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

Duncan, S.R., 2012. Perspective: Clues, not conclusions. Nature 489, S15.

A journal article with 2 authors

Bisley, J.W., Goldberg, M.E., 2003. Neuronal activity in the lateral intraparietal area and spatial attention. Science 299, 81–86.

A journal article with 3 authors

Takeuchi, Y., Yoshizaki, G., Takeuchi, T., 2004. Biotechnology: surrogate broodstock produces salmonids. Nature 430, 629–630.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Postberg, F., Khawaja, N., Abel, B., Choblet, G., Glein, C.R., Gudipati, M.S., Henderson, B.L., Hsu, H.-W., Kempf, S., Klenner, F., Moragas-Klostermeyer, G., Magee, B., Nölle, L., Perry, M., Reviol, R., Schmidt, J., Srama, R., Stolz, F., Tobie, G., Trieloff, M., Waite, J.H., 2018. Macromolecular organic compounds from the depths of Enceladus. Nature 558, 564–568.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Sabol, S., 2016. Case Studies in Mechanical Engineering. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Deng, Z., Neumann, U. (Eds.), 2008. Data-Driven 3D Facial Animation. Springer, London.

A chapter in an edited book

Trezzi, J.-P., Vlassis, N., Hiller, K., 2015. The Role of Metabolomics in the Study of Cancer Biomarkers and in the Development of Diagnostic Tools, in: Scatena, R. (Ed.), Advances in Cancer Biomarkers: From Biochemistry to Clinic for a Critical Revision, Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp. 41–57.

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 Journal of Contaminant Hydrology.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2015. Brain–Brain Interface Allows Humans To Control Cockroaches With Their Minds [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL (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, 2009. Commercial Space Transportation: Development of the Commercial Space Launch Industry Presents Safety Oversight Challenges for FAA and Raises Issues Affecting Federal Roles (No. GAO-10-286T). 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

Salters, D.D., 2008. The effects of independent reading on the reading comprehension skills of sixth-grade students (Doctoral dissertation). University of Phoenix, Phoenix, AZ.

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

(nyt), S.K., 2004. World Briefing | Europe: Georgia: Device Explodes In Capital. New York Times A10.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Duncan, 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Bisley and Goldberg, 2003; Duncan, 2012).

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

Two authors: (Bisley and Goldberg, 2003)
Three or more authors: (Postberg et al., 2018)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Contaminant Hydrology
Abbreviation	J. Contam. Hydrol.
ISSN (print)	0169-7722
Scope	Environmental Chemistry Water Science and Technology