How to format your references using the Water Resources Management citation style

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

Mazin II (2015) Superconductivity: Extraordinarily conventional. Nature 525:40–41

A journal article with 2 authors

Savill J, Fadok V (2000) Corpse clearance defines the meaning of cell death. Nature 407:784–788

A journal article with 3 authors

Scales SJ, Finley MF, Scheller RH (2001) Cell biology. Fusion without SNAREs? Science 294:1015–1016

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Muller DA, Kourkoutis LF, Murfitt M, et al (2008) Atomic-scale chemical imaging of composition and bonding by aberration-corrected microscopy. Science 319:1073–1076

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Collings S (2015) Interpretation and Application of UK GAAP. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Bronner F, Farach-Carson MC, Roach HI (trudy) (eds) (2010) Bone and Development. Springer, London

A chapter in an edited book

Rieke GH (2008) Formation and Evolution of Terrestrial Planets in Protoplanetary and Debris Disks. In: Mason JW (ed) Exoplanets: Detection, Formation, Properties, Habitability. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 89–113

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 Management.

Blog post

Hale T (2017) Watch This Year’s “Firefall’ Light Up Yosemite Once Again. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/watch-this-years-firefall-light-up-yosemite-once-again/. 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 (2010) Transportation Security: Additional Actions Could Strengthen the Security of Intermodal Transportation Facilities. 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

Washington-Cobb SL (2012) Exploring the Experiences of Former Alternative Education Participants: Case Studies. Doctoral dissertation, Lindenwood University

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

Murphy MJO (2015) Remembering the Phonograph. New York Times C22

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Mazin 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Savill and Fadok 2000; Mazin 2015).

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

Two authors: (Savill and Fadok 2000)
Three or more authors: (Muller et al. 2008)

About the journal

Full journal title	Water Resources Management
Abbreviation	Water Resour. Manage.
ISSN (print)	0920-4741
ISSN (online)	1573-1650
Scope	Civil and Structural Engineering Water Science and Technology