How to format your references using the Journal of Hydrology: Regional Studies citation style

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

Smaglik, P., 2000. US industry starts to think big by acting small. Nature 408, 621–622.

A journal article with 2 authors

Guerrero, I., Ruiz i Altaba, A., 2003. Development. Longing for ligand: hedgehog, patched, and cell death. Science 301, 774–776.

A journal article with 3 authors

Nemoto, S., Fergusson, M.M., Finkel, T., 2004. Nutrient availability regulates SIRT1 through a forkhead-dependent pathway. Science 306, 2105–2108.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Han, Z., Tang, Z., Shen, S., Zhao, B., Zheng, G., Yang, J., 2014. Strengthening of graphene aerogels with tunable density and high adsorption capacity towards Pb2+. Sci. Rep. 4, 5025.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Palmquist, S.R., 2015. Comprehensive Commentary on Kant’s Religion within the Bounds of Bare Reason. John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Lajtha, A., Chan, P.H. (Eds.), 2007. Handbook of Neurochemistry and Molecular Neurobiology: Acute Ischemic Injury and Repair in the Nervous System. Springer US, Boston, MA.

A chapter in an edited book

Smith, R.C., 2014. Novel Biomarkers for Cholangiocarcinoma, in: Herman, J.M., Pawlik, T.M., Thomas, C.R., Jr. (Eds.), Biliary Tract and Gallbladder Cancer: A Multidisciplinary Approach, Medical Radiology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 67–82.

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 Hydrology: Regional Studies.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2014. Ask A Physicist To Speak At Your Funeral [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, 1981. Award of Grant by Education (No. B-204905). 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

Lyzlov, A., 2017. In Vivo Efficacy of Lanthanum Carbonate on Intestinal Phosphorus Absorption in Stage Five Chronic Kidney Disease Patients Undergoing Peritoneal Dialysis (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

Protess, B., Ivory, D., 2016. Bill to Weaken Dodd-Frank’s Rules on Private Equity Nears House Vote. New York Times B3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Smaglik, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Guerrero and Ruiz i Altaba, 2003; Smaglik, 2000).

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

Two authors: (Guerrero and Ruiz i Altaba, 2003)
Three or more authors: (Han et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Hydrology: Regional Studies
Abbreviation	J. Hydrol. Reg. Stud.
ISSN (print)	2214-5818
Scope