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

Smaglik, P. (2004). Ghosts in the machine. Nature, 427(6977), 867.

A journal article with 2 authors

Wang, Y., & Hekimi, S. (2015). Mitochondrial dysfunction and longevity in animals: Untangling the knot. Science (New York, N.Y.), 350(6265), 1204–1207.

A journal article with 3 authors

Skipper, M., Weiss, U., & Gray, N. (2010). Plasticity. Nature, 465(7299), 703.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Hu, L., Mateo, P., Ye, M., Zhang, X., Berset, J. D., Handrick, V., Radisch, D., Grabe, V., Köllner, T. G., Gershenzon, J., Robert, C. A. M., & Erb, M. (2018). Plant iron acquisition strategy exploited by an insect herbivore. Science (New York, N.Y.), 361(6403), 694–697.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ellis, R. (2012). Language Teaching Research and Language Pedagogy. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Bailey, D. H., Bauschke, H. H., Borwein, P., Garvan, F., Théra, M., Vanderwerff, J. D., & Wolkowicz, H. (Eds.). (2013). Computational and Analytical Mathematics: In Honor of Jonathan Borwein’s 60th Birthday (Vol. 50). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Choi, W.-G., Swanson, S. J., & Gilroy, S. (2011). Calcium, Mechanical Signaling, and Tip Growth. In S. Luan (Ed.), Coding and Decoding of Calcium Signals in Plants (pp. 41–61). Springer.

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

O`Callaghan, J. (2017, June 2). SpaceX Will Make History With Its Next Launch Tomorrow. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/spacex-will-make-history-with-its-next-launch-tomorrow/

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 (RCED-88-116BR). 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

Polk, R. L. (2015). Examining students with disabilities in a linked learning pathway [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

Yablonsky, L. (2012, April 1). Sound Garden. New York Times, M278.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Smaglik, 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Smaglik, 2004; Wang & Hekimi, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Wang & Hekimi, 2015)
Three authors: (Skipper et al., 2010)
6 or more authors: (Hu et al., 2018)

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