How to format your references using the Agricultural Water Management citation style

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

Toulouse, G., 2000. Community groups could show Unesco the way. Nature 405, 394.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hammond, E.M., Giaccia, A.J., 2002. Antiangiogenic therapy and p53. Science 297, 471; discussion 471.

A journal article with 3 authors

Chakraborty, S., Yanchulova, P., Thiemens, M.H., 2013. Mass-independent oxygen isotopic partitioning during gas-phase SiO2 formation. Science 342, 463–466.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Richardson, C.J., Reiss, P., Hussain, N.A., Alwash, A.J., Pool, D.J., 2005. The restoration potential of the Mesopotamian marshes of Iraq. Science 307, 1307–1311.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Holsclaw, G., 2016. Transcending Subjects. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Johansson, H., Panican, A. (Eds.), 2016. Combating Poverty in Local Welfare Systems, Work and Welfare in Europe. Palgrave Macmillan UK, London.

A chapter in an edited book

Küster, U., Lausen, H., König-Ries, B., 2008. Evaluation of Semantic Service Discovery—A Survey and Directions for Future Research, in: Gschwind, T., Pautasso, C. (Eds.), Emerging Web Services Technology, Volume II. Birkhäuser, Basel, pp. 41–58.

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 Agricultural Water Management.

Blog post

Luntz, S., 2016. Scientists Prank Monkeys With Fake Poop For Real Research [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/scientists-prank-monkeys-with-fake-poop-for-real-research/ (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, 2001. Customs Service Modernization: Results of Review of First Automated Commercial Environment Expenditure Plan (No. GAO-01-696). 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

Kott, T.M., 2012. Measurements of correlated two-dimensional electrons in the lowest Landau level on silicon(111) (Doctoral dissertation). University of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD.

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

(nyt), S.K., 2004. World Briefing | Europe: Russia: Chechen Issues New Threat. New York Times A6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Toulouse, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Hammond and Giaccia, 2002; Toulouse, 2000).

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

Two authors: (Hammond and Giaccia, 2002)
Three or more authors: (Richardson et al., 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	Agricultural Water Management
Abbreviation	Agric. Water Manag.
ISSN (print)	0378-3774
Scope	Agronomy and Crop Science Soil Science Earth-Surface Processes Water Science and Technology