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

Radom L (2004) Obituary: John A. Pople (1925-2004). Nature 428:816

A journal article with 2 authors

Wolchok JD, Chan TA (2014) Cancer: Antitumour immunity gets a boost. Nature 515:496–498

A journal article with 3 authors

Tria F, Pompei S, Loreto V (2013) Dynamically correlated mutations drive human Influenza A evolution. Sci Rep 3:2705

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Leduc G, Vidal L, Tachikawa K, et al (2007) Moisture transport across Central America as a positive feedback on abrupt climatic changes. Nature 445:908–911

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Paultre P (2013) Dynamics of Structures. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Jing X (2015) Frequency Domain Analysis and Design of Nonlinear Systems based on Volterra Series Expansion: A Parametric Characteristic Approach. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Stenzig J, Foo RS-Y (2016) DNA Methylation in Heart Failure. In: Backs J, McKinsey TA (eds) Epigenetics in Cardiac Disease. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 75–102

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

Hale T (2016) Five Women Masturbated Inside An MRI Machine. This Is A Video Of Their Brains During Orgasm. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/brain/womens-brains-during-an-orgasm/. 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 (1999) Customs Service Modernization: Actions Needed to Correct Serious ACE Management and Technical Weaknesses. 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

Lamanna SG (2012) Colombian Spanish in North Carolina: The role of language and dialect contact in the formation of a new variety of U.S. Spanish. Doctoral dissertation, Indiana 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

de la MERCED MJ, Corkery M (2017) Sale at Lord & Taylor: Start-Up Is Moving In. New York Times A20

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Radom 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Radom 2004; Wolchok and Chan 2014).

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

Two authors: (Wolchok and Chan 2014)
Three or more authors: (Leduc 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