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

Branco, T. (2011) Eppendorf winner. The language of dendrites. Science 334(6056), 615–616.

A journal article with 2 authors

Alle, H. & Geiger, J. R. P. (2006) Combined analog and action potential coding in hippocampal mossy fibers. Science 311(5765), 1290–1293.

A journal article with 3 authors

Li, L., Wang, H. & Zhao, X. (2014) Effects of Rhodiola on production, health and gut development of broilers reared at high altitude in Tibet. Sci. Rep. 4, 7166.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Deguchi, S., Mukai, S.-A., Sakaguchi, H. & Nonomura, Y. (2013) Non-engineered nanoparticles of C₆₀. Sci. Rep. 3, 2094.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Attwood, D., Baybutt, P., Devlin, C., Fluharty, W., Hughes, G., Isaacson, D., Joyner, P., et al. (2006) Human Factors Methods for Improving Performance in the Process Industries. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Aboh, E. O. & Essegbey, J. (Eds.). (2010) Topics in Kwa Syntax. Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, Vol. 78. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Rouane, M. H., Huchard, M., Napoli, A. & Valtchev, P. (2007) A Proposal for Combining Formal Concept Analysis and Description Logics for Mining Relational Data. In: Formal Concept Analysis: 5th International Conference, ICFCA 2007, Clermont-Ferrand, France, February 12-16, 2007. Proceedings Lecture Notes in Computer Science (S. O. Kuznetsov & S. Schmidt, eds.), 51–65. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

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

Andrew, E. (2015, July 13) MRI Study Reveals Brain Regions That Get Songs Stuck In Our Heads. IFLScience. IFLScience. Retrieved October 30, 2018, from https://www.iflscience.com/brain/brain-regions-help-get-songs-stuck-our-heads-revealed/

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. (2013) National Airspace System: Airport-Centric Development ( No. GAO-13-261). 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

Katsky, C. S. (2015) Open Secrets: Congressional Oversight of the CIA in the Early Cold War (Doctoral dissertation). George Washington University, Washington, DC.

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

Saulny, S. (2004, March 8) Club’s Owner And 2 Others Arrested in Raid. New York Times B1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Branco, 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Alle & Geiger, 2006, Branco, 2011).

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

Two authors: (Alle & Geiger, 2006)
Three or more authors: (Deguchi et al., 2013)

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