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

Kleiner K (2007) Civil aviation faces green challenge. Nature 448:120–121

A journal article with 2 authors

Wenseleers T, Ratnieks FLW (2006) Enforced altruism in insect societies. Nature 444:50

A journal article with 3 authors

Zhang Q, Shalaby NA, Buszczak M (2014) Changes in rRNA transcription influence proliferation and cell fate within a stem cell lineage. Science 343:298–301

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Mercado LM, Bellouin N, Sitch S, et al (2009) Impact of changes in diffuse radiation on the global land carbon sink. Nature 458:1014–1017

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ishiyama JT (2011) Comparative Politics. Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK

An edited book

Chakrabarti G (2012) Anatomy of Global Stock Market Crashes: An Empirical Analysis. Springer India, New Delhi

A chapter in an edited book

Heyde L (2005) The Unsatisfied Enlightenment Faith and Pure Insight in Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit. In: Desmond W, Onnasch E-O, Cruysberghs P (eds) Philosophy and Religion in German Idealism. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp 71–79

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

Andrews R (2016) Ancient Super-Eruptions Blasted Volcanic Debris All The Way Across Australia. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/ancient-supereruptions-blasted-volcanic-debris-all-the-way-across-australia/. 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 (1978) The Role of Field Operations in the Federal Communications Commission’s Regulatory Structure. 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

Yarijanian AA (2017) Cardborigami’s Strategic Business Plan to Address Urban Homelessness. 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

Williams J (2017) Where Everybody Knows Your Name (and Dad’s). New York Times C5

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Kleiner 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Wenseleers and Ratnieks 2006; Kleiner 2007).

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

Two authors: (Wenseleers and Ratnieks 2006)
Three or more authors: (Mercado 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

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