How to format your references using the International Journal of Water Resources Development citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Journal of Water Resources Development. 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	Download the output style file
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

Fortini, M. E. (2007). Medicine. Anticipating trouble from gene transcription. Science (New York, N.Y.), 315(5820), 1800–1801.

A journal article with 2 authors

Moore, T., & Armstrong, K. M. (2003). Selective gating of visual signals by microstimulation of frontal cortex. Nature, 421(6921), 370–373.

A journal article with 3 authors

Vergoz, V., Schreurs, H. A., & Mercer, A. R. (2007). Queen pheromone blocks aversive learning in young worker bees. Science (New York, N.Y.), 317(5836), 384–386.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Lu, J., Sherman, D., Devor, M., & Saper, C. B. (2006). A putative flip-flop switch for control of REM sleep. Nature, 441(7093), 589–594.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Rachev, S. T., Kim, Y. S., Bianchi, M. L., & Fabozzi, F. J. (2011). Financial Models with Lévy Processes and Volatility Clustering. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Karner, C., & Weicht, B. (Eds.). (2016). The Commonalities of Global Crises: Markets, Communities and Nostalgia. Palgrave Macmillan UK.

A chapter in an edited book

Kuks, J. B. M. (2009). Clinical Presentation and Epidemiology of Myasthenia Gravis. In H. J. Kaminski (Ed.), Myasthenia Gravis and Related Disorders (pp. 79–94). Humana Press.

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 International Journal of Water Resources Development.

Blog post

Taub, B. (2016, November 7). Here’s What The World Of Science Looked Like Last Time The Chicago Cubs Won The World Series. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/heres-what-the-world-of-science-looked-like-last-time-the-chicago-cubs-won-the-world-series/

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. (1998). Aviation Competition: International Aviation Alliances and the Influence of Airline Marketing Practices (T-RCED-98-131). U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Blair, G. T. (2014). The effects of a league guided sportsmanship program on the behaviors of youth sports athletes [Doctoral dissertation]. California State University, Long Beach.

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

Kishkovsky, S. (2003, October 12). Muscovites Replace “This Old House” With “Changing Rooms.” New York Times, 92.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Fortini, 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Fortini, 2007; Moore & Armstrong, 2003).

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

Two authors: (Moore & Armstrong, 2003)
Three authors: (Vergoz et al., 2007)
6 or more authors: (Lu et al., 2006)

About the journal

Full journal title	International Journal of Water Resources Development
Abbreviation	Int. J. Water Resour. Dev.
ISSN (print)	0790-0627
ISSN (online)	1360-0648
Scope	Water Science and Technology Development