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

Reichhardt, T. Funding Woes Spell Doom for US Radio Dish. Nature 2000, 404, 7.

A journal article with 2 authors

Dove, C.J.; Straker, L.C. Comment on “A Diverse Assemblage of Late Cretaceous Dinosaur and Bird Feathers from Canadian Amber.” Science 2012, 335, 796; author reply 796.

A journal article with 3 authors

Chuang, J.S.; Rivoire, O.; Leibler, S. Simpson’s Paradox in a Synthetic Microbial System. Science 2009, 323, 272–275.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Ohno, H.; Chiba, D.; Matsukura, F.; Omiya, T.; Abe, E.; Dietl, T.; Ohno, Y.; Ohtani, K. Electric-Field Control of Ferromagnetism. Nature 2000, 408, 944–946.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

El Hami, A.; Radi, B. Uncertainty and Optimization in Structural Mechanics; John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ, 2013; ISBN 9781118711903.

An edited book

Teaching Gender through Latin American, Latino, and Iberian Texts and Cultures; Gómez, L., Horno-Delgado, A., Long, M.K., Silleras-Fernández, N., Eds.; Teaching Gender; SensePublishers: Rotterdam, 2015; ISBN 9789463000918.

A chapter in an edited book

Grandcolas, P. Adaptation. In Handbook of Evolutionary Thinking in the Sciences; Heams, T., Huneman, P., Lecointre, G., Silberstein, M., Eds.; Springer Netherlands: Dordrecht, 2015; pp. 77–93 ISBN 9789401790130.

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

Fang, J. Blue-Footed Boobies Camouflage Eggs With Dirt, And It Works Available online: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/blue-footed-boobies-camouflage-eggs-dirt-and-it-works/ (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 Computer Technology at IRS: Present and Planned; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 1983;

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Strong, M. Investigation and Characterization of Features on a Cretaceous-Paleogene Seismic Horizon in Northern Louisiana. Doctoral dissertation, University of Louisiana: Lafayette, LA, 2013.

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

Hodgman, J. Bonus Advice From Judge John Hodgman. New York Times 2016, MM18.

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