How to format your references using the Desalination citation style

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

[1]

L.J. Young, Being human: love: neuroscience reveals all, Nature 457 (2009) 148.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

H. Kuroda, P. Maliga, The plastid clpP1 protease gene is essential for plant development, Nature 425 (2003) 86–89.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

E.H. Blackburn, E.S. Epel, J. Lin, Human telomere biology: A contributory and interactive factor in aging, disease risks, and protection, Science 350 (2015) 1193–1198.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

J. Kim, K. Inoue, J. Ishii, W.B. Vanti, S.V. Voronov, E. Murchison, G. Hannon, A. Abeliovich, A MicroRNA feedback circuit in midbrain dopamine neurons, Science 317 (2007) 1220–1224.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

P. Stockinger, Audiovisual Archives, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ USA, 2013.

An edited book

[1]

L.C. van der Gaag, A.J. Feelders, eds., Probabilistic Graphical Models: 7th European Workshop, PGM 2014, Utrecht, The Netherlands, September 17-19, 2014. Proceedings, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

M.D. Max, A.H. Johnson, Potential High-Quality Reservoir Sediments in the Gas Hydrate Stability Zone, in: A.H. Johnson (Ed.), Exploration and Production of Oceanic Natural Gas Hydrate: Critical Factors for Commercialization, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2016: pp. 137–155.

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 Desalination.

Blog post

[1]

A. Carpineti, There Are Dangerous Asteroids Hiding Among The Taurid Meteor Shower, IFLScience (2017). https://www.iflscience.com/space/there-are-dangerous-asteroids-hiding-among-the-taurid-meteor-shower/ (accessed October 30, 2018).

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

[1]

Government Accountability Office, Education Finance: Extent of Federal Funding in State Education Agencies, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1994.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

R.D. Toothaker, A phenomenological study of millennial students and traditional pedagogies, Doctoral dissertation, University of Phoenix, 2014.

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

[1]

W. Hu, Hazing Abuses Mar Asian-American Fraternities, New York Times (2015) A1.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Desalination
Abbreviation	Desalination
ISSN (print)	0011-9164
Scope	General Chemical Engineering General Chemistry Mechanical Engineering Water Science and Technology General Materials Science