How to format your references using the Journal of Irrigation and Drainage Engineering citation style

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

Quéré, Y. 2010. “Retrospective. Georges Charpak (1924-2010).” Science (New York, N.Y.), 330 (6004): 604.

A journal article with 2 authors

Sivanand, S., and K. E. Wellen. 2015. “Molecular biology: Salvaging the genome.” Nature, 524 (7563): 40–41.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kulmala, M., L. Pirjola, and J. M. Makela. 2000. “Stable sulphate clusters as a source of new atmospheric particles.” Nature, 404 (6773): 66–69.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Shang, G. L., G. T. Fei, Y. Zhang, P. Yan, S. H. Xu, H. M. Ouyang, and L. D. Zhang. 2014. “Fano resonance in anodic aluminum oxide based photonic crystals.” Scientific reports, 4: 3601.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Held, T. 2014. In-situ-Verfahren zur Boden- und Grundwassersanierung. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Grampp, S., ed. 2008. Radiology of Osteoporosis. Medical Radiology, Diagnostic Imaging. 2nd Revised Edition. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Wong, P. C. 2014. “Structural Evaluation of the Heart by Transesophageal Echocardiography.” Transesophageal Echocardiography for Congenital Heart Disease, edited by P. C. Wong and W. C. Miller-Hance, 89–120. London: Springer.

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 Irrigation and Drainage Engineering.

Blog post

Luntz, S. 2017. “Martian Crater And Blast Zone Formed In The Last Three Years.” IFLScience. IFLScience. Accessed October 30, 2018.

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. 1987. Army Deployment: Better Transportation Planning Is Needed. 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

Byeon, G. 2014. “More than words: A comparative study of Liszt’s Liebesträume and the songs from which they were transcribed.” 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

Gordon, M. 2012. “Blessed Among Women.” New York Times, November 11, 2012.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Quéré 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Quéré 2010; Sivanand and Wellen 2015).

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

Two authors: (Sivanand and Wellen 2015)
Three or more authors: (Shang et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Irrigation and Drainage Engineering
Abbreviation	J. Irrig. Drain. Eng.
ISSN (print)	0733-9437
ISSN (online)	1943-4774
Scope	Agricultural and Biological Sciences (miscellaneous) Civil and Structural Engineering Water Science and Technology