How to format your references using the Advances in Water Resources citation style

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

Kitayama, K., 2005. Comment on “Ecosystem properties and forest decline in contrasting long-term chronosequences.” Science 308, 633; author reply 633.

A journal article with 2 authors

Narayan, A.R.H., Sherman, D.H., 2013. Chemistry. Re-engineering nature’s catalysts. Science 339, 283–284.

A journal article with 3 authors

Tyler, R.H., Maus, S., Lühr, H., 2003. Satellite observations of magnetic fields due to ocean tidal flow. Science 299, 239–241.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Tanaka, H., Kato, K., Yamashita, E., Sumizawa, T., Zhou, Y., Yao, M., Iwasaki, K., Yoshimura, M., Tsukihara, T., 2009. The structure of rat liver vault at 3.5 angstrom resolution. Science 323, 384–388.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Dacey, J.S., Mack, M.D., Fiore, L.B., 2016. Your Anxious Child. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Aoyagi, Y., Kajikawa, K. (Eds.), 2013. Optical Properties of Advanced Materials, Springer Series in Materials Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Boer, T., 2010. The Relation between Theology and Philosophy, A Story of Troubled Twins, in: Fløistad, G. (Ed.), Philosophy of Religion. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp. 107–127.

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 Advances in Water Resources.

Blog post

Hale, T., 2017. 600-Year-Old Buddha Statue Re-Emerges Following Water Level Drops [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/600yearold-buddha-statue-reemerges-following-water-level-drops/ (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, 1989. GAO’s Views on SDIO’s Phase I Cost Estimate (No. T-NSIAD-89-18). 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

Wilson, P., 2015. A Case Study of the Efficacy of Middle College on Educational Advancement (Doctoral dissertation). Lindenwood University, St. Charles, MO.

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

Wagner, J., 2017. A Washington Monument To Pitching’s Fickle Nature. New York Times SP1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Kitayama, 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Kitayama, 2005; Narayan and Sherman, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Narayan and Sherman, 2013)
Three or more authors: (Tanaka et al., 2009)

About the journal

Full journal title	Advances in Water Resources
Abbreviation	Adv. Water Resour.
ISSN (print)	0309-1708
Scope	Water Science and Technology