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

Bennett, C.L., 2009. Astronomy. Cosmology at a crossroads. Science 325, 1347–1348.

A journal article with 2 authors

Araújo, M.B., Rahbek, C., 2006. Ecology. How does climate change affect biodiversity? Science 313, 1396–1397.

A journal article with 3 authors

Lee, C.C., Hu, Y., Ribbe, M.W., 2010. Vanadium nitrogenase reduces CO. Science 329, 642.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Eiler, J.M., Schiano, P., Kitchen, N., Stolper, E.M., 2000. Oxygen-isotope evidence for recycled crust in the sources of mid-ocean-ridge basalts. Nature 403, 530–534.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Volpe, M.A., 2013. Rethinking Christian Identity. Blackwell Publishing Ltd, Oxford.

An edited book

Chiarella, C., Novikov, A. (Eds.), 2010. Contemporary Quantitative Finance: Essays in Honour of Eckhard Platen. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Gillani, S., Shahzad, F., Qayyum, A., Mehmood, R., 2013. A Survey on Security in Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks, in: Berbineau, M., Jonsson, M., Bonnin, J.-M., Cherkaoui, S., Aguado, M., Rico-Garcia, C., Ghannoum, H., Mehmood, R., Vinel, A. (Eds.), Communication Technologies for Vehicles: 5th International Workshop, Nets4Cars/Nets4Trains 2013, Villeneuve d’Ascq, France, May 14-15, 2013. Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 59–74.

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, D., 2017. Five Amazing Ultrasound Inventions Set To Change The World (And Not A Pregnancy Scan In Sight) [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/technology/five-amazing-ultrasound-inventions-set-to-change-the-world-and-not-a-pregnancy-scan-in-sight/ (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, 1990. Submarine Technology: Transition Plans Needed to Realize Gains From DOD Advanced Research (No. IMTEC-90-21). 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

Clendening, R.J., 2009. A structured methodology for unifying functional analysis with systems analysis to enhance system behavior knowledge (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

Lovett, I., Nagourney, A., 2014. Deadly Rampage in College Town After Video Rant. New York Times A1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Bennett, 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Araújo and Rahbek, 2006; Bennett, 2009).

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

Two authors: (Araújo and Rahbek, 2006)
Three or more authors: (Eiler et al., 2000)

About the journal

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