How to format your references using the HydroResearch citation style

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

Gerber, C., 2013. Heinrich Rohrer (1933-2013). Nature 499, 30.

A journal article with 2 authors

Alekseyenko, A.A., Kuroda, M.I., 2004. Molecular biology. Filling gaps in genome organization. Science 303, 1148–1149.

A journal article with 3 authors

Imaizumi, K., Shih, J.Y., Farris, H.E., 2013. Global hyper-synchronous spontaneous activity in the developing optic tectum. Sci. Rep. 3, 1552.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

White, R.M., Cech, J., Ratanasirintrawoot, S., Lin, C.Y., Rahl, P.B., Burke, C.J., Langdon, E., Tomlinson, M.L., Mosher, J., Kaufman, C., Chen, F., Long, H.K., Kramer, M., Datta, S., Neuberg, D., Granter, S., Young, R.A., Morrison, S., Wheeler, G.N., Zon, L.I., 2011. DHODH modulates transcriptional elongation in the neural crest and melanoma. Nature 471, 518–522.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kolb, R.W., 2011. Sovereign Debt. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Gribble, G.W. (Ed.), 2010. Heterocyclic Scaffolds II: Reactions and Applications of Indoles, Topics in Heterocyclic Chemistry. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Drusini, A., 2016. Anthropology and Bio-cultural Adaptation of the Ancient Nasca Inhabitants, in: Lasaponara, R., Masini, N., Orefici, G. (Eds.), The Ancient Nasca World: New Insights from Science and Archaeology. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 87–100.

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 HydroResearch.

Blog post

Carpineti, A., 2016. This Ridiculously Accurate Clock Could Fit Inside Your Smartphone [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/technology/high-precision-clock-could-soon-fit-inside-smartphone/ (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 1988. Technology Transfer: Constraints Perceived by Federal Laboratory and Agency Officials (No. RCED-88-116BR). U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Luna, D., 2014. Preventing obesity among foster youth through nutrition and outdoor activities: A grant proposal (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Vecsey, G., 2010. U.S. Team Needs A Bradley or Two. New York Times D1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Gerber, 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Alekseyenko and Kuroda, 2004; Gerber, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Alekseyenko and Kuroda, 2004)
Three or more authors: (White et al., 2011)

About the journal

Full journal title	HydroResearch
ISSN (print)	2589-7578
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