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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Barnes K (2011) Volcanology: Europe’s ticking time bomb. Nature 473:140–141

A journal article with 2 authors

Ikeda T, Ube T (2014) Materials science: A superelastic organic crystal. Nature 511:300–301

A journal article with 3 authors

Rodríguez-Muñoz R, Ojanguren AF, Tregenza T (2008) Comment on “International conservation policy delivers benefits for birds in Europe.” Science 319:1042; author reply 1042

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Burresi M, van Oosten D, Kampfrath T, et al (2009) Probing the magnetic field of light at optical frequencies. Science 326:550–553

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Rajagopal R (2014) Sustainable Value Creation in the Fine and Speciality Chemicals Industry. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Lee C-F (2013) Statistics for Business and Financial Economics, 3rd ed. 2013. Springer, New York, NY

A chapter in an edited book

Etxebarria N, Navarro P, Prieto A, et al (2012) Extraction Procedures for Organic Pollutants Determination in Water. In: Lichtfouse E, Schwarzbauer J, Robert D (eds) Environmental Chemistry for a Sustainable World: Volume 2: Remediation of Air and Water Pollution. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp 171–235

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

Luntz S (2016) Why Does Being A Twin Run In Families? 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 (1971) Feasibility of Treating Contractors’ Independent Research and Development Costs as a Budget Line Item. 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

Mark M (2017) A peer mentorship program for youth transitioning out of foster care: A grant proposal. 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

Wagner J (2017) Mets’ Slide Drags On As a Lead Vanishes. New York Times D3

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Barnes 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Barnes 2011; Ikeda and Ube 2014).

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

Two authors: (Ikeda and Ube 2014)
Three or more authors: (Burresi et al. 2009)

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