How to format your references using the Acta hydrotechnica citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Acta hydrotechnica. 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 references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles 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

Sridhar, D. (2012). Health policy: Regulate alcohol for global health. Nature 482(7385), 302.

A journal article with 2 authors

Destexhe, A., Marder, E. (2004). Plasticity in single neuron and circuit computations. Nature 431(7010), 789–795.

A journal article with 3 authors

Wilson, H. R., Blake, R., Lee, S. H. (2001). Dynamics of travelling waves in visual perception. Nature 412(6850), 907–910.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Reithmaier, J. P., Sek, G., Löffler, A., Hofmann, C., Kuhn, S., Reitzenstein, S., Keldysh, L. V., Kulakovskii, V. D., Reinecke, T. L., Forchel, A. (2004). Strong coupling in a single quantum dot-semiconductor microcavity system. Nature 432(7014), 197–200.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kindmann, R., Krüger, U. (2013). Stahlbau. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany.

An edited book

Gaïti, D. (Ed.) (2007). Network Control and Engineering for QoS, Security and Mobility, IV: Fourth IFIP International Conference on Network Control and Engineering for QoS, Security and Mobility, Lannion, France, November 14–18, 2005, IFIP — The International Federation for Information Processing. Springer US, Boston, MA.

A chapter in an edited book

Abo, M., Kakuda, W. (2015). rTMS for Poststroke Dysphagia, in: Kakuda, W. (Ed.), Rehabilitation with RTMS. Springer International Publishing, Cham, 89–108.

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 Acta hydrotechnica.

Blog post

Taub, B. (2016). The Primate Brain Is Wired To Handle Any Situation Life Throws At It, Study Suggests [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/brain/the-primate-brain-is-wired-to-handle-any-situation-life-throws-at-it-study-suggests/ (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 (2014). Advanced Imaging Technology: TSA Needs Additional Information before Procuring Next-Generation Systems (No. GAO-14-357). 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

Makovec, M. G. (2008). A study of the factors predicting attrition and contributing to the attrition rate of high school teachers in Hampton Roads, Virginia (Doctoral dissertation). George Washington University, Washington, DC.

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

Lee, L. (2013). Keeping Her Eyes On the Floor. New York Times D2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Sridhar, 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Destexhe and Marder, 2004; Sridhar, 2012).

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

Two authors: (Destexhe and Marder, 2004)
Three or more authors: (Reithmaier et al., 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	Acta hydrotechnica
ISSN (print)	0352-3551
ISSN (online)	1581-0267
Scope