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

Standfuss J (2015) Structural biology. Viral chemokine mimicry. Science 347:1071–1072

A journal article with 2 authors

Patrinos AAN, Bradley RA (2009) Environment. Energy and technology policies for managing carbon risk. Science 325:949–950

A journal article with 3 authors

Bosch R, van de Pol M, Philp J (2015) Policy: Define biomass sustainability. Nature 523:526–527

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Bukowski R, Szalewicz K, Groenenboom GC, van der Avoird A (2007) Predictions of the properties of water from first principles. Science 315:1249–1252

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hermans J, Lentz B (2013) Equilibria and Kinetics of Biological Macromolecules. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

El Miedany Y (ed) (2016) Patient Reported Outcome Measures in Rheumatic Diseases. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Ru’yuan L, Zhi’an W, Li’yan, Xuhui W (2011) Internet-Based Electronic Toll Collection System Using WiFi Technology. In: Dai M (ed) Innovative Computing and Information: International Conference, ICCIC 2011, Wuhan, China, September 17-18, 2011. Proceedings, Part II. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 22–25

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

Fang J (2014) Could Losing Your Sense of Smell Foretell Looming Death? In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/could-losing-your-sense-smell-foretell-looming-death/. 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 (1993) Health Information Systems: National Practitioner Data Bank Continues to Experience Problems. 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

Forshey TM (2013) Neural basis of the neurological diagnostic power of vibrotactile sensory testing. Doctoral dissertation, University of North Carolina

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

Barron J (2016) Rebirth of a Bronx Housing Complex Aims to Cut Crime and Increase Homes. New York Times A24

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Standfuss 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Patrinos and Bradley 2009; Standfuss 2015).

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

Two authors: (Patrinos and Bradley 2009)
Three or more authors: (Bukowski 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