How to format your references using the Drinking Water Engineering and Science Discussions citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Drinking Water Engineering and Science Discussions. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Bolfan-Casanova, N.: Geochemistry. Fuel for plate tectonics, Science, 315, 338–339, 2007.

A journal article with 2 authors

Festing, M. F. and Fisher, E. M.: Mighty mice, Nature, 404, 815, 2000.

A journal article with 3 authors

Pagel, M., Venditti, C., and Meade, A.: Large punctuational contribution of speciation to evolutionary divergence at the molecular level, Science, 314, 119–121, 2006.

A journal article with 100 or more authors

Huang, L. R., Cox, E. C., Austin, R. H., and Sturm, J. C.: Continuous particle separation through deterministic lateral displacement, Science, 304, 987–990, 2004.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Rasch, D. and Schott, D.: Mathematische Statistik, Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany, 2015.

An edited book

Ibrahimbegovic, A. (Ed.): Computational Methods for Solids and Fluids: Multiscale Analysis, Probability Aspects and Model Reduction, 1st ed. 2016., Springer International Publishing, Cham, XII, 493 p. 224 illus. in color pp., 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

van der Lans, A.: Enterprise Content Management (ECM): The Unstructured Part, in: Enterprise Information Management: When Information Becomes Inspiration, edited by: Baan, P., Springer, New York, NY, 125–148, 2013.

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 Drinking Water Engineering and Science Discussions.

Blog post

Live Webcast: Giant Asteroid Will Eclipse Regulus: https://www.iflscience.com/space/live-webcast-giant-asteroid-will-eclipse-regulus/, last access: 30 October 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

Government Accountability Office: Proposed Revisions to Procurement Regulations Covering ADP Equipment and Services, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1980.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Ma, B.: Improving the performance of hyperspectral target detection, Doctoral dissertation, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS, 2012.

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

Neuman, W.: Mayor’s Ouster Is Approved in Colombia, New York Times, 21st March, A9, 2014.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Bolfan-Casanova, 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Bolfan-Casanova, 2007; Festing and Fisher, 2000).

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

Two authors: (Festing and Fisher, 2000)
Three or more authors: (Huang et al., 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	Drinking Water Engineering and Science Discussions
Abbreviation	Drink. Water Eng. Sci. Discuss.
ISSN (online)	1996-9481
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