How to format your references using the Hydrology citation style

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

Downward, J. The Ins and Outs of Signalling. Nature 2001, 411, 759–762.

A journal article with 2 authors

Cooper, V.S.; Lenski, R.E. The Population Genetics of Ecological Specialization in Evolving Escherichia Coli Populations. Nature 2000, 407, 736–739.

A journal article with 3 authors

Palazzo, A.; Ackerman, B.; Gundersen, G.G. Cell Biology: Tubulin Acetylation and Cell Motility. Nature 2003, 421, 230.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Schaub, J.R.; Huppert, K.A.; Kurial, S.N.T.; Hsu, B.Y.; Cast, A.E.; Donnelly, B.; Karns, R.A.; Chen, F.; Rezvani, M.; Luu, H.Y.; et al. De Novo Formation of the Biliary System by TGFβ-Mediated Hepatocyte Transdifferentiation. Nature 2018, 557, 247–251.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Cazdyn, E.; Szeman, I. After Globalization; John Wiley & Sons, Ltd: Chichester, UK, 2011; ISBN 9781444396478.

An edited book

Ncube, M. Global Growth and Financial Spillovers and the South African Macro-Economy; Gumata, N., Ndou, E., Eds.; Palgrave Macmillan UK: London, 2016; ISBN 9781349561896.

A chapter in an edited book

Pickel, G.; Gladkich, A. Religious Social Capital in Europe Connections between Religiosity and Civil Society. In Transformations of Religiosity: Religion and Religiosity in Eastern Europe 1989 – 2010; Pickel, G., Sammet, K., Eds.; VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften: Wiesbaden, 2012; pp. 69–94 ISBN 9783531175409.

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 Hydrology.

Blog post

Hale, T. Svalbard Will Soon Have Another “Doomsday Vault” For Storing Precious Literature Available online: https://www.iflscience.com/technology/svalbard-will-soon-have-another-doomsday-vault-for-storing-precious-literature/ (accessed on 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 Digital Television Transition: Implementation of the Converter Box Subsidy Program Is Under Way, but Preparedness to Manage an Increase in Subsidy Demand Is Unclear; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 2008;

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Song, X. A New Estimating Equation Based Approach for Secondary Trait Analyses in Genetic Case-Control Studies. Doctoral dissertation, Columbia University: New York, NY, 2015.

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. In Colombia, Land Mines Are Cleared, Inch by Inch. New York Times 2015, A4.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Hydrology
ISSN (online)	2306-5338
Scope