How to format your references using the Journal of Hydrologic Engineering citation style

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

Schimel, D. S. 2010. “Climate. Drylands in the Earth system.” Science (New York, N.Y.), 327 (5964): 418–419.

A journal article with 2 authors

MacLean, R. C., and I. Gudelj. 2006. “Resource competition and social conflict in experimental populations of yeast.” Nature, 441 (7092): 498–501.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bunge, J., S. S. Epstein, and D. G. Peterson. 2006. “Comment on ‘Computational improvements reveal great bacterial diversity and high metal toxicity in soil.’” Science (New York, N.Y.), 313 (5789): 918; author reply 918.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Wang, J., Y. Sun, S. Zheng, X.-S. Zhang, H. Zhou, and L. Chen. 2013. “APG: an Active Protein-Gene network model to quantify regulatory signals in complex biological systems.” Scientific reports, 3: 1097.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Moloney, M. G. 2015. How to Solve Organic Reaction Mechanisms. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Ziemann, O. 2008. POF Handbook: Optical Short Range Transmission Systems. Edited by J. Krauser, P. E. Zamzow, and W. Daum. Second edition. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Tam, E., and T.-A. Sweeney. 2016. “Learning with iPads in Early Childhood Education.” Publishing Higher Degree Research: Making the Transition from Student to Researcher, edited by J. Orrell and D. D. Curtis, 43–52. Rotterdam: SensePublishers.

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 Hydrologic Engineering.

Blog post

Carpineti, C. 2017. “Brian Cox Recently Made A Surprising Statement About The Existence Of Ghosts.” IFLScience. IFLScience. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/physics/brian-cox-recently-made-a-surprising-statement-about-the-existence-of-ghosts/.

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. 2010. Pipeline Security: TSA Has Taken Actions to Help Strengthen Security, but Could Improve Priority-Setting and Assessment Processes. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Kannanthanathu, A. F. 2017. “Wavelet Transform and Ensemble Logistic Regression for Driver Drowsiness Detection.” Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach.

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

Quain, J. R. 2016. “When a Sound System Can Mean Life or Death.” New York Times, November 10, 2016.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Schimel 2010).
This sentence cites two references (MacLean and Gudelj 2006; Schimel 2010).

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

Two authors: (MacLean and Gudelj 2006)
Three or more authors: (Wang et al. 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Hydrologic Engineering
Abbreviation	J. Hydrol. Eng.
ISSN (print)	1084-0699
ISSN (online)	1943-5584
Scope	Civil and Structural Engineering General Environmental Science Environmental Chemistry Water Science and Technology