How to format your references using the Water resources and rural development citation style

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

Russo, E., 2004. Fast Track: charting the course of your postdoc. Nature 431, 1126–1127.

A journal article with 2 authors

Smith, E., Shilatifard, A., 2009. Developmental biology. Histone cross-talk in stem cells. Science 323, 221–222.

A journal article with 3 authors

Spurný, P., Oberst, J., Heinlein, D., 2003. Photographic observations of Neuschwanstein, a second meteorite from the orbit of the Príbram chondrite. Nature 423, 151–153.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Verbiscer, A., French, R., Showalter, M., Helfenstein, P., 2007. Enceladus: cosmic graffiti artist caught in the act. Science 315, 815.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

AIChE Equipment Testing Procedure, 1987. Tray Distillation Columns. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Crescenzi, R., Percoco, M. (Eds.), 2013. Geography, Institutions and Regional Economic Performance, Advances in Spatial Science, The Regional Science Series. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Newland, M.C., 2012. Methylmercury and Fish Nutrients in Experimental Models, in: Ceccatelli, S., Aschner, M. (Eds.), Methylmercury and Neurotoxicity. Springer US, Boston, MA, pp. 55–90.

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 resources and rural development.

Blog post

Andrews, R., 2016. Dinosaurs Couldn’t Sing But Ancient Birds Could Honk [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 1990. Army Battlefield Automation: Oversight Needed to Assure Integrated System (No. IMTEC-90-78). 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

Aguirre, I., 2009. Policy analysis of the Foster Care Independence Act of 1999 (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Gorman, J., 2016. Judge Allows Departure of 7 Chimps to England. New York Times A12.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Russo, 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Russo, 2004; Smith and Shilatifard, 2009).

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

Two authors: (Smith and Shilatifard, 2009)
Three or more authors: (Verbiscer et al., 2007)

About the journal

Full journal title	Water resources and rural development
Abbreviation	Water Resour. Rural Dev.
ISSN (print)	2212-6082
Scope	Water Science and Technology Development Geography, Planning and Development