How to format your references using the Journal of Applied Water Engineering and Research citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Applied Water Engineering and Research. 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

Hellemans A. 2001. Beating the European brain drain. Nature. 414(6862):4–5.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kollatschny W, Zetzl M. 2011. Broad-line active galactic nuclei rotate faster than narrow-line ones. Nature. 470(7334):366–368.

A journal article with 3 authors

Pinker RT, Zhang B, Dutton EG. 2005. Do satellites detect trends in surface solar radiation? Science. 308(5723):850–854.

A journal article with 12 or more authors

Zhang Y, Guo X, Guo J, He Q, Li H, Song Y, Zhang H. 2014. Lactobacillus casei reduces susceptibility to type 2 diabetes via microbiota-mediated body chloride ion influx. Sci Rep. 4:5654.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Dant S. 2016. Losing Eden. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Bradt RC, Munz D, Sakai M, White KW, editors. 2005. Fracture Mechanics of Ceramics: Active Materials, Nanoscale Materials, Composites, Glass and Fundamentals. Boston, MA: Springer US.

A chapter in an edited book

de Filippo G. 2016. The Tetra Pak Case. In: Baroncelli C, Ballerio N, editors. WCOM (World Class Operations Management): Why You Need More Than Lean. Cham: Springer International Publishing; p. 37–45.

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 Journal of Applied Water Engineering and Research.

Blog post

Taub B. 2016. The Primate Brain Is Wired To Handle Any Situation Life Throws At It, Study Suggests. IFLScience [Internet]. [accessed 2018 Oct 30]. https://www.iflscience.com/brain/the-primate-brain-is-wired-to-handle-any-situation-life-throws-at-it-study-suggests/

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. 2002. Telecommunications: Additional Federal Efforts Could Help Advance Digital Television Transition. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

White J. 2014. Support group for family caregivers of Alzheimer’s patients: A grant proposal [Doctoral dissertation]. Long Beach, CA: 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

Dinardo K. 2014. Charting the Journey to Sochi. New York Times.:TR11.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Hellemans 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Hellemans 2001; Kollatschny and Zetzl 2011).

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

Two authors: (Kollatschny and Zetzl 2011)
Three or more authors: (Zhang et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Applied Water Engineering and Research
ISSN (online)	2324-9676
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