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

Mace, G.M. Ecology. Whose Conservation? Science 2014, 345, 1558–1560.

A journal article with 2 authors

Berenbaum, M.R.; Eisner, T. Ecology. Bugs’ Bugs. Science 2008, 322, 52–53.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hedrick, T.L.; Cheng, B.; Deng, X. Wingbeat Time and the Scaling of Passive Rotational Damping in Flapping Flight. Science 2009, 324, 252–255.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Reick, M.; Garcia, J.A.; Dudley, C.; McKnight, S.L. NPAS2: An Analog of Clock Operative in the Mammalian Forebrain. Science 2001, 293, 506–509.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Robinson, M.D. An Employer’s and Engineer’s Guide to the FIDIC Conditions of Contract; John Wiley & Sons: Oxford, 2013; ISBN 9781118385562.

An edited book

Arnon, I. APOS Theory: A Framework for Research and Curriculum Development in Mathematics Education; Cottrill, J., Dubinsky, E., Oktaç, A., Roa Fuentes, S., Trigueros, M., Weller, K., Eds.; Springer: New York, NY, 2014; ISBN 9781461479659.

A chapter in an edited book

Zeng, S.; Shi, H.; Kang, L.; Ding, L. Orthogonal Dynamic Hill Climbing Algorithm: ODHC. In Evolutionary Computation in Dynamic and Uncertain Environments; Yang, S., Ong, Y.-S., Jin, Y., Eds.; Studies in Computational Intelligence; Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2007; pp. 79–104 ISBN 9783540497721.

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. Prince’s Death From Fentanyl Is Only The Tip Of The Global Overdose Iceberg Available online: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/prince-s-death-fentanyl-only-tip-global-overdose-iceberg/ (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 Federal Communications Commission: Review of the Commission’s Regulations Governing Attribution Ownership Rule; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 1999;

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Duncan, E.A. Environmental Controls of Black Abalone Body Temperature Determine Risks of Thermal Stress and Disease. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach: Long Beach, CA, 2017.

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

Pendleton, I. ART AND TASTE IN THE SMALL GARDEN; The Show Is a Busy Short-Course Garden School. New York Times 1934, DRAMA SCREEN MUSIC SHOPPERS’ COLUMNS EDUCATION GARDENS RADIO FASHIONS ART THE DANCE HOTELS RESTAURANTSX14.

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

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