How to format your references using the Irrigation Science citation style

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

White TD (2007) Obituary: F. Clark Howell (1925-2007). Nature 447:52

A journal article with 2 authors

Hines PJ, Zahn LM (2012) Plant metabolism. Green pathways. Introduction. Science 336:1657

A journal article with 3 authors

Abelson M, Baer G, Agnon A (2001) Evidence from gabbro of the Troodos ophiolite for lateral magma transport along a slow-spreading mid-ocean ridge. Nature 409:72–75

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Reddy SK, Rape M, Margansky WA, Kirschner MW (2007) Ubiquitination by the anaphase-promoting complex drives spindle checkpoint inactivation. Nature 446:921–925

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Soustelle M (2016) Ionic and Electrochemical Equilibria. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Boutellier R (2014) Growth Through Innovation: Managing the Technology-Driven Enterprise. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Goodman J, Langdon PM, Clarkson PJ (2006) Providing Strategic User Information for Designers: Methods and Initial Findings. In: Clarkson J, Langdon P, Robinson P (eds) Designing Accessible Technology. Springer, London, pp 41–51

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 Irrigation Science.

Blog post

Andrew E (2016) Could The Mystery Of The Meow Actually Be Solved By A New Talking Cat Collar? In: IFLScience. Accessed 30 Oct 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 (2003) Vehicle Donations: Taxpayer Considerations When Donating Vehicles to Charities. 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

Angell BD (2017) Transformational Innovation and Transformational Leadership in the U.S. Government Department of Defense Acquisitions Workforce. Doctoral dissertation, Capella 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

Poniewozik J (2017) A Hero’s Journey Is a Real Head Trip. New York Times C1

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (White 2007).
This sentence cites two references (White 2007; Hines and Zahn 2012).

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

Two authors: (Hines and Zahn 2012)
Three or more authors: (Reddy et al. 2007)

About the journal

Full journal title	Irrigation Science
Abbreviation	Irrig. Sci.
ISSN (print)	0342-7188
ISSN (online)	1432-1319
Scope	Agronomy and Crop Science Soil Science Water Science and Technology