How to format your references using the Water Environment Research citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Water Environment Research. 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

Dickson, D. (2000) Mathematicians chase the seven million-dollar proofs. Nature, 405 (6785), 383.

A journal article with 2 authors

Lau, W. C. Y.; Rubinstein, J. L. (2011) Subnanometre-resolution structure of the intact Thermus thermophilus H+-driven ATP synthase. Nature, 481 (7380), 214–218.

A journal article with 3 authors

Fischle, W.; Wang, Y.; Allis, C. D. (2003) Binary switches and modification cassettes in histone biology and beyond. Nature, 425 (6957), 475–479.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Kubota, K.; Yokoyama, Y.; Ishikawa, T.; Obrochta, S.; Suzuki, A. (2014) Larger CO₂ source at the equatorial Pacific during the last deglaciation. Sci. Rep., 4, 5261.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Spiegel, R. (2005) Psychopharmacology; Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Saucier, R. D. (2016) Reflections on Life in Higher Education. (N. G. Barnes, K. K. Folkers, F. B. Hoyt, L. M. Lindgren, L. L. Lohman, M. J. Messina & S. Jacobsen, Eds.); London: Palgrave Macmillan UK.

A chapter in an edited book

Carlson, D. L.; Albright, J. (2012) The Technology of Portfolios. In: Composing a Care of the Self: A Critical History of Writing Assessment in Secondary English Education (D. L. Carlson & J. Albright, eds.), 123–141; Rotterdam: SensePublishers.

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 Water Environment Research.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2014, June 17) Deadly Double Tornado Hit Nebraska. IFLScience; IFLScience. Retrieved 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. (1996) CEC Sale of Federal Spectrum ( No. NSIAD-97-40R); 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

Ressler, K. M. (2008) The path to leadership for Native American women at North Dakota tribal colleges (Doctoral dissertation); Capella University, Minneapolis, MN.

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

Sisario, B. (2016, September 19) Judge Rejects Justice Dept. Decision on Music Licensing. New York Times, B4.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Dickson, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Dickson, 2000, Lau and Rubinstein, 2011).

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

Two authors: (Lau and Rubinstein, 2011)
Three or more authors: (Kubota et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Water Environment Research
Abbreviation	Water Environ. Res.
ISSN (print)	1061-4303
ISSN (online)	1554-7531
Scope	Environmental Chemistry Water Science and Technology General Medicine