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 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

O’Brien JL. 2007. Optical quantum computing. Science (New York, N.Y.) 318 (5856): 1567–1570

A journal article with 2 authors

Brunauer R, Kennedy BK. 2015. Medicine. Progeria accelerates adult stem cell aging. Science (New York, N.Y.) 348 (6239): 1093–1094

A journal article with 3 authors

Ishikawa H, Ma Z, Barber GN. 2009. STING regulates intracellular DNA-mediated, type I interferon-dependent innate immunity. Nature 461 (7265): 788–792

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Zheng J-J, Zhao X, Zhao Y, Gao X. 2013. Two-dimensional carbon compounds derived from graphyne with chemical properties superior to those of graphene. Scientific reports 3: 1271

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

McMaster MC. 2007. HPLC. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Bock R, Knoop V (eds). 2012. Genomics of Chloroplasts and Mitochondria. Springer Netherlands: Dordrecht.

A chapter in an edited book

Krebs LU. 2012. Sexual Health During Cancer Treatment. In Reproductive Health and Cancer in Adolescents and Young Adults, Quinn GP, , Vadaparampil ST (eds).Springer Netherlands: Dordrecht; 61–76.

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. 2016. 18 ‘Healthy Habits’ You Should Give Up In 2017. IFLScience Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/18-healthy-habits-you-should-give-up-in-2017/ [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. 1999. Technology Transfer: Reporting Requirements for Federally Sponsored Inventions Need Revision. RCED-99-242. 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

Tran A. 2012. A psychoeducational program on hoarding within the Vietnamese community: Grant writing proposal.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

Koblin J. 2016. That Padres Pitcher, She’s Got a Mean Screwball. New York Times: AR118

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (O’Brien, 2007).
This sentence cites two references (O’Brien, 2007; Brunauer and Kennedy, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Brunauer and Kennedy, 2015)
Three or more authors: (Zheng et al., 2013)

About the journal

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