How to format your references using the Journal of Sustainable Water in the Built Environment citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Sustainable Water in the Built Environment. 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

Sadler, J. E. 2003. “Structural biology. A ménage à trois in two configurations.” Science (New York, N.Y.), 301 (5630): 177–179.

A journal article with 2 authors

Shohat, S., and S. Shifman. 2014. “Bias towards large genes in autism.” Nature, 512 (7512): E1-2.

A journal article with 3 authors

Velikov, V., S. Borick, and C. A. Angell. 2001. “The glass transition of water, based on hyperquenching experiments.” Science (New York, N.Y.), 294 (5550): 2335–2338.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Shi, Y., Y. Wang, J. I. Wong, A. Y. S. Tan, C.-L. Hsu, L.-J. Li, Y.-C. Lu, and H. Y. Yang. 2013. “Self-assembly of hierarchical MoSx/CNT nanocomposites (2<x<3): towards high performance anode materials for lithium ion batteries.” Scientific reports, 3: 2169.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

McDonnell, G., and D. Sheard. 2012. A Practical Guide to Decontamination in Healthcare. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishing Ltd.

An edited book

Zschocke, J., K. M. Gibson, G. Brown, E. Morava, and V. Peters, eds. 2013. JIMD Reports - Volume 11. JIMD Reports. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Chiles, C., and G. Shroff. 2012. “Malignant Pericardial Disease.” Malignant Effusions: Pleuritis, Ascites, Pericardites, edited by M. V. Kiselevsky, 77–97. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

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 Sustainable Water in the Built Environment.

Blog post

Andrew, E. 2015. “Venus Encounters The Moon Before Dawn.” 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. 1988. Army Transportation: Alleged Overcharges on Rail Shipments to and From Ft. Irwin, California. 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

Smith, B. 2013. “Analysis of hydraulic and financial operations of a recycled water system: A case study of the Orange County water district’s green acres project.” 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

Novick, S. M. 2014. “From Sound’s Floor to Holiday Table.” New York Times, December 20, 2014.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Sadler 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Sadler 2003; Shohat and Shifman 2014).

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

Two authors: (Shohat and Shifman 2014)
Three or more authors: (Shi et al. 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Sustainable Water in the Built Environment
Abbreviation	J. Sustain. Water Built Environ.
ISSN (online)	2379-6111
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