How to format your references using the Journal of the American Water Resources Association citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of the American Water Resources Association (JAWRA). 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

Frierson, D.M.W., 2012. Atmospheric Science. Frictional Dissipation--Blame It on the Rain. Science (New York, N.Y.) 335:925–926.

A journal article with 2 authors

Emery, N.J. and N.S. Clayton, 2004. The Mentality of Crows: Convergent Evolution of Intelligence in Corvids and Apes. Science (New York, N.Y.) 306:1903–1907.

A journal article with 3 authors

Gutiérrez, N.L., R. Hilborn, and O. Defeo, 2011. Leadership, Social Capital and Incentives Promote Successful Fisheries. Nature 470:386–389.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Beermann, J., R.L. Eriksen, T. Holmgaard, K. Pedersen, and S.I. Bozhevolnyi, 2014. Plasmonic Black Metals via Radiation Absorption by Two-Dimensional Arrays of Ultra-Sharp Convex Grooves. Scientific Reports 4:6904.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Richards, T., 2014. Investing Psychology. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Sjöstedt, G. and R. Avenhaus (Editors)., 2009. Negotiated Risks: International Talks on Hazardous Issues. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Grancharova, A. and T.A. Johansen, 2012. Explicit NMPC via Approximate Mp-NLP. T. A. Johansen (Editor). Explicit Nonlinear Model Predictive Control: Theory and Applications,Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 87–110.

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 the American Water Resources Association.

Blog post

Carpineti, A., 2016. New Battery Promises More Power In Half The Size. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/new-battery-promises-more-power-in-half-the-size/. Accessed 30 Oct 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, 1973. DOD’s Data Banks on Contractors’ Independent Research and Development Programs. 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

Lamanna, C.A., 2012. The Structure and Function of Subalpine Ecosystems in the Face of Climate Change. Doctoral dissertation, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ.

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

Otis, J., 2016. Overcoming Setbacks and Gaining a Certification. New York Times:A29.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Frierson, 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Emery and Clayton, 2004; Frierson, 2012).

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

Two authors: (Emery and Clayton, 2004)
Three or more authors: (Beermann et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of the American Water Resources Association
Abbreviation	J. Am. Water Resour. Assoc.
ISSN (print)	1093-474X
ISSN (online)	1752-1688
Scope	Earth-Surface Processes Ecology Water Science and Technology