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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Kerr, R.A. CLIMATOLOGY: Does a Climate Clock Get a Noisy Boost? Science 2000, 290, 697–698.

A journal article with 2 authors

Gerson, A.R.; Guglielmo, C.G. Flight at Low Ambient Humidity Increases Protein Catabolism in Migratory Birds. Science 2011, 333, 1434–1436.

A journal article with 3 authors

Velev, O.D.; Prevo, B.G.; Bhatt, K.H. On-Chip Manipulation of Free Droplets. Nature 2003, 426, 515–516.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Pool, M.R.; Stumm, J.; Fulga, T.A.; Sinning, I.; Dobberstein, B. Distinct Modes of Signal Recognition Particle Interaction with the Ribosome. Science 2002, 297, 1345–1348.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Rowe, H.E. Electromagnetic Propagation in Multi-Mode Random Media; John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: New York, USA, 2001; ISBN 9780471200703.

An edited book

Kitanovski, A. Magnetocaloric Energy Conversion: From Theory to Applications; Tušek, J., Tomc, U., Plaznik, U., Ožbolt, M., Poredoš, A., Eds.; Green Energy and Technology; Springer International Publishing: Cham, 2015; ISBN 9783319087405.

A chapter in an edited book

Obando, S.E.; Avitabile, P. Prediction of Forced Response on Ancillary Subsystem Components Attached to Reduced Linear Systems. In Dynamics of Coupled Structures, Volume 1: Proceedings of the 32nd IMAC, A Conference and Exposition on Structural Dynamics, 2014; Allen, M., Mayes, R., Rixen, D., Eds.; Conference Proceedings of the Society for Experimental Mechanics Series; Springer International Publishing: Cham, 2014; pp. 51–72 ISBN 9783319045009.

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

Andrew, E. Has NASA Really Created A Warp Drive? (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 Aviation Safety: Targeting and Training of FAA’s Safety Inspector Workforce; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 1996;

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Giuseffi, F.G. Investigation of the Influence of the Socratic Method on Leadership Skills among JROTC Cadet Leaders at a Military Boarding School. Doctoral dissertation, Lindenwood University: St. Charles, MO, 2014.

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

Billard, M. Scouting Report. New York Times 2010, E6.

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