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

Stratton, M.R., 2011. Exploring the genomes of cancer cells: progress and promise. Science 331, 1553–1558.

A journal article with 2 authors

Steinman, R.M., Banchereau, J., 2007. Taking dendritic cells into medicine. Nature 449, 419–426.

A journal article with 3 authors

Martinson, B.C., Anderson, M.S., de Vries, R., 2005. Scientists behaving badly. Nature 435, 737–738.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Karlsson, J., Byström, P., Ask, J., Ask, P., Persson, L., Jansson, M., 2009. Light limitation of nutrient-poor lake ecosystems. Nature 460, 506–509.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Vento, J.J., 2013. Financial Independence (Getting to Point X ). John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Krishnan, S.P.T., 2015. Building Your Next Big Thing with Google Cloud Platform: A Guide for Developers and Enterprise Architects. Apress, Berkeley, CA.

A chapter in an edited book

Smith, A.S., Birnie, A.K., French, J.A., 2013. Prenatal Androgens Affect Development and Behavior in Primates, in: Clancy, K.B.H., Hinde, K., Rutherford, J.N. (Eds.), Building Babies: Primate Development in Proximate and Ultimate Perspective. Springer, New York, NY, pp. 103–131.

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., 2015. Envision 2050: The Future Of The Oceans [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/environment/envision-2050-future-oceans/ (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, 1986. The Job Training Partnership Act Performance Standards and Information Systems (No. 129345). 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

Marshall, L.D., 2015. The jeweled net, sacred landscape, and the vision of the heart (Doctoral dissertation). Pacifica Graduate Institute, Carpinteria, 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

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 (Stratton, 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Steinman and Banchereau, 2007; Stratton, 2011).

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

Two authors: (Steinman and Banchereau, 2007)
Three or more authors: (Karlsson 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