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

Heyworth, M. F. (2000). Sky was not the limit for music-loving Herschel. Nature, 407(6802), 286.

A journal article with 2 authors

McCauley, D. W., & Bronner-Fraser, M. (2006). Importance of SoxE in neural crest development and the evolution of the pharynx. Nature, 441(7094), 750–752.

A journal article with 3 authors

Stott, L., Timmermann, A., & Thunell, R. (2007). Southern Hemisphere and deep-sea warming led deglacial atmospheric CO2 rise and tropical warming. Science (New York, N.Y.), 318(5849), 435–438.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Natsume, R., Eitoku, M., Akai, Y., Sano, N., Horikoshi, M., & Senda, T. (2007). Structure and function of the histone chaperone CIA/ASF1 complexed with histones H3 and H4. Nature, 446(7133), 338–341.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hein, H., & Kunze, W. (2005). Umweltanalytik mit Spektrometrie und Chromatographie. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Dastani, M., Hübner, J. F., & Logan, B. (Eds.). (2013). Programming Multi-Agent Systems: 10th International Workshop, ProMAS 2012, Valencia, Spain, June 5, 2012, Revised Selected Papers (Vol. 7837). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Han, I., & Hou, S.-T. (2016). Taiwan Taxi Company. In S.-T. Hou (Ed.), Social Innovation and Business in Taiwan (pp. 37–55). Palgrave Macmillan US.

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

Andrew, E. (2014, March 7). Flatworm Mating: Literally a Cockblock. IFLScience; IFLScience.

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. (1991). Digests of Decisions of the Comptroller General of the United States, Vol. II, No. 5 (144236). 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

Kraka, E. K. (2012). Assessment of herbicides for control of non-native species: Italian ryegrass (Lolium perenne spp. multiflorum ), tropical spiderwort (Commelina benghalensis), and tropical soda apple (Solanum viarum) [Doctoral dissertation]. Mississippi State University.

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

Pilon, M. (2014, February 16). Suit Change Does Not Matter As U.S. Misses Podium Again. New York Times, SP7.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Heyworth, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Heyworth, 2000; McCauley & Bronner-Fraser, 2006).

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

Two authors: (McCauley & Bronner-Fraser, 2006)
Three or more authors: (Natsume et al., 2007)

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