How to format your references using the Water History citation style

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

Butler D (2003) Spiralling costs dog comet mission. Nature 423:372

A journal article with 2 authors

Patrinos A, Bamzai A (2005) Policy needs robust climate science. Nature 438:285

A journal article with 3 authors

Terrones H, López-Urías F, Terrones M (2013) Novel hetero-layered materials with tunable direct band gaps by sandwiching different metal disulfides and diselenides. Sci Rep 3:1549

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Yeritsyan H, Sahakyan A, Harutyunyan V, et al (2013) Radiation-modified natural zeolites for cleaning liquid nuclear waste (irradiation against radioactivity). Sci Rep 3:2900

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Cox I, Gaudard MA, Stephens ML (2016) Visual Six Sigma, Second Edition. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Icard T, Muskens R (eds) (2010) Interfaces: Explorations in Logic, Language and Computation: ESSLLI 2008 and ESSLLI 2009 Student Sessions. Selected Papers. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Chevrot A, Drapé J-L, Godefroy D, Feydy A (2009) Percutaneous Infiltration of the Craniovertebral Region. In: Gangi A, Guth S, Guermazi A (eds) Imaging in Percutaneous Musculoskeletal Interventions. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 83–91

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 History.

Blog post

Hale T (2017) Student Designs A Bra That Can Help Detect Breast Cancer. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/student-designs-a-bra-that-can-help-detect-breast-cancer/. 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 (1977) Alternative to Project Seafarer. 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

Rosenberg EL (2010) Learning to live: The clinical importance of first-person accounts of recovery from anorexia nervosa. Doctoral dissertation, Pacifica Graduate Institute

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

Hyduk J (2016) Looking to Take a City Where Grubb and Speed Never Did. New York Times B10

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Butler 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Butler 2003; Patrinos and Bamzai 2005).

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

Two authors: (Patrinos and Bamzai 2005)
Three or more authors: (Yeritsyan et al. 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Water History
Abbreviation	Water Hist.
ISSN (print)	1877-7236
ISSN (online)	1877-7244
Scope	History Water Science and Technology Geography, Planning and Development