How to format your references using the Hydrological Processes citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Hydrological Processes. 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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Streicker DG. 2013. Science & SciLifeLab Prize. From persistence to cross-species emergence of a viral zoonosis. Science (New York, N.Y.) 342 (6163): 1185–1186

A journal article with 2 authors

Guo X, Silva SRP. 2008. Engineering. High-performance transistors by design. Science (New York, N.Y.) 320 (5876): 618–619

A journal article with 3 authors

Foth C, Tischlinger H, Rauhut OWM. 2014. New specimen of Archaeopteryx provides insights into the evolution of pennaceous feathers. Nature 511 (7507): 79–82

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Uchida M, Onose Y, Matsui Y, Tokura Y. 2006. Real-space observation of helical spin order. Science (New York, N.Y.) 311 (5759): 359–361

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ruckmongathan TN. 2014. Addressing Techniques of Liquid Crystal Displays. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd: Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Seidl H. 2012. Compiler Design: Analysis and Transformation (R Wilhelm and S Hack, eds). Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Andrade WL, Machado PDL. 2009. Interruption Testing of Reactive Systems. In Formal Methods: Foundations and Applications: 12th Brazilian Symposium on Formal Methods, SBMF 2009 Gramado, Brazil, August 19-21, 2009 Revised Selected Papers, Oliveira MVM, , Woodcock J (eds).Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg; 37–53.

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 Hydrological Processes.

Blog post

Andrew D. 2015. New Concept Plane Can Take Off And Land Like A Helicopter. IFLScience Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/technology/new-concept-plane-can-take-and-land-helicoptor/ [Accessed 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. 2011. Information Technology: Continued Improvements in Investment Oversight and Management Can Yield Billions in Savings. GAO-11-511T. 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

Ghafoori HD. 2010. Working with Muslim children and families: A training program for child welfare social workers.Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, 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

Saslow L. 2009. Districts Pursue School-Closing Plans to Save Money. New York Times: LI5

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Streicker, 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Guo and Silva, 2008; Streicker, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Guo and Silva, 2008)
Three or more authors: (Uchida et al., 2006)

About the journal

Full journal title	Hydrological Processes
Abbreviation	Hydrol. Process.
ISSN (print)	0885-6087
ISSN (online)	1099-1085
Scope	Water Science and Technology