How to format your references using the Journal of Hydrometeorology citation style

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

Schorghofer, N., 2007: Dynamics of ice ages on Mars. Nature, 449, 192–194.

A journal article with 2 authors

Largeron, M., and M.-B. Fleury, 2013: Chemistry. Bioinspired oxidation catalysts. Science, 339, 43–44.

A journal article with 3 authors

Wellman, C. H., P. L. Osterloff, and U. Mohiuddin, 2003: Fragments of the earliest land plants. Nature, 425, 282–285.

A journal article with 9 or more authors

Barbieri, I., and Coauthors, 2017: Promoter-bound METTL3 maintains myeloid leukaemia by m6A-dependent translation control. Nature, 552, 126–131.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Calloway, J., 2009: Becoming a Category of One. Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Sarwat, M., A. Ahmad, and M. Z. Abdin, eds., 2013: Stress Signaling in Plants: Genomics and Proteomics Perspective, Volume 1. Springer XI, 233 pp.

A chapter in an edited book

Love, J. C., S. M. Derrick, and J. M. Wiersema, 2011: Fractures of the Vertebral Column, Sternum, Scapulae, and Clavicles. Skeletal Atlas of Child Abuse, S.M. Derrick and J.M. Wiersema, Eds., Humana Press, 57–67.

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 Hydrometeorology.

Blog post

Fang, J., 2016: Neanderthal Diets Changed With Climate. Ours Didn’t. IFLScience. Accessed 30 October 2018, https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/neanderthal-diets-changed-climate-ours-didnt/.

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, 2004: Medicaid: Intergovernmental Transfers Have Facilitated State Financing Schemes. 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

Best, M. L., 2013: Assistant Principals and Reform: A Socialization Paradox? University of North Carolina.

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

Wagner, J., 2016: Beyond the Stats, a Met Admired. New York Times, September 25.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Schorghofer 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Schorghofer 2007; Largeron and Fleury 2013).

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

Two authors: (Largeron and Fleury 2013)
Three or more authors: (Barbieri et al. 2017)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Hydrometeorology
Abbreviation	J. Hydrometeorol.
ISSN (print)	1525-755X
ISSN (online)	1525-7541
Scope	Atmospheric Science