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

Colliex, C., 2015. Chemistry. Tracking the merry dance of nanoparticles. Science 349, 232–233.

A journal article with 2 authors

Mukhopadhyay, D., Riezman, H., 2007. Proteasome-independent functions of ubiquitin in endocytosis and signaling. Science 315, 201–205.

A journal article with 3 authors

Worthylake, D.K., Rossman, K.L., Sondek, J., 2000. Crystal structure of Rac1 in complex with the guanine nucleotide exchange region of Tiam1. Nature 408, 682–688.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Polyansky, O.L., Császár, A.G., Shirin, S.V., Zobov, N.F., Barletta, P., Tennyson, J., Schwenke, D.W., Knowles, P.J., 2003. High-accuracy ab initio rotation-vibration transitions for water. Science 299, 539–542.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Paolella, M.S., 2006. Fundamental Probability. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Zabel, H., Farle, M. (Eds.), 2013. Magnetic Nanostructures: Spin Dynamics and Spin Transport, Springer Tracts in Modern Physics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Tran, P., Friend, R., MacClune, K., Henceroth, J., 2016. Building Urban Climate Resilience: Experiences from Vulnerability Assessment in Hue City, Viet Nam, in: Uitto, J.I., Shaw, R. (Eds.), Sustainable Development and Disaster Risk Reduction, Disaster Risk Reduction. Springer Japan, Tokyo, pp. 57–69.

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

Andrew, E., 2014. How To Feed a Two-Headed Snake [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/how-feed-two-headed-snake/ (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, 1999. Space Station: Russian Commitment and Cost Control Problems (No. NSIAD-99-175). 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

Keep, A.W., 2013. A nanopass framework for commercial compiler development (Doctoral dissertation). Indiana University, Bloomington, IN.

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

Walsh, M.W., 2015. Cracks Starting to Appear in Public Pensions’ Armor. New York Times B1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Colliex, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Colliex, 2015; Mukhopadhyay and Riezman, 2007).

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

Two authors: (Mukhopadhyay and Riezman, 2007)
Three or more authors: (Polyansky et al., 2003)

About the journal

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