How to format your references using the Hydrological Sciences Journal citation style

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

Sarewitz, D. (2010) Entertaining science. Nature 466(7302), 27.

A journal article with 2 authors

Carmeliet, P. & Jain, R. K. (2000) Angiogenesis in cancer and other diseases. Nature 407(6801), 249–257.

A journal article with 3 authors

McPhaden, M. J., Zebiak, S. E. & Glantz, M. H. (2006) ENSO as an integrating concept in earth science. Science 314(5806), 1740–1745.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Siddiqa, A., Sims-Mourtada, J. C., Guzman-Rojas, L., Rangel, R., Guret, C., Madrid-Marina, V., Sun, Y., et al. (2001) Regulation of CD40 and CD40 ligand by the AT-hook transcription factor AKNA. Nature 410(6826), 383–387.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Reschetilowski, W. (2002) Technisch-Chemisches Praktikum. D-69451 Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH.

An edited book

Schulte, B. A., Goodwin, T. E. & Ferkin, M. H. (Eds.). (2016) Chemical Signals in Vertebrates 13. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Todić, D. (2011) Social and Environmental Issues Related to Security in SEE Countries. In: Environmental Security in South-Eastern Europe: International Agreements and Their Implementation NATO Science for Peace and Security Series C: Environmental Security (M. Montini & S. Bogdanovic, eds.), 43–58. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

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 Sciences Journal.

Blog post

Davis, J. (2015, June 12) Battle Of The Deep Sea Monsters: Colossal Squid Vs Giant Toothfish. IFLScience. IFLScience. Retrieved 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

Government Accountability Office. (1991) Aviation Safety: Problems Persist in FAA’s Inspection Program ( No. RCED-92-14). Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Vargo, G. (2010) Social protest and the novel: Chartism, the radical press, and early Victorian fiction (Doctoral dissertation). Columbia University, New York, NY.

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

McFADDEN, R. D. (2017, July 27) June Foray Is Dead at 99; Voiced Rocky and a Cast Of Animated Characters. New York Times A24.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Sarewitz, 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Carmeliet & Jain, 2000, Sarewitz, 2010).

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

Two authors: (Carmeliet & Jain, 2000)
Three or more authors: (Siddiqa et al., 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	Hydrological Sciences Journal
Abbreviation	Hydrol. Sci. J.
ISSN (print)	0262-6667
ISSN (online)	2150-3435
Scope	Water Science and Technology