How to format your references using the Journal of Contaminant Hydrology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Contaminant Hydrology. 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	Download the output style file
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

Bunk, S., 2001. Sandia scientists develop instruments at the crossroads. Nature 410, 128–129.

A journal article with 2 authors

Gaudet, J., Mango, S.E., 2002. Regulation of organogenesis by the Caenorhabditis elegans FoxA protein PHA-4. Science 295, 821–825.

A journal article with 3 authors

Chen, J., Rashid, T., Feng, G., 2014. Esterase in imported fire ants, Solenopsis invicta and S. richteri (Hymenoptera: Formicidae): activity, kinetics and variation. Sci. Rep. 4, 7112.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Sawa, M., Nusinow, D.A., Kay, S.A., Imaizumi, T., 2007. FKF1 and GIGANTEA complex formation is required for day-length measurement in Arabidopsis. Science 318, 261–265.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Schwartz, R.A., Carew, M.G., Maksimenko, T., 2010. Micro Markets. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Sánchez-González, D., Rodríguez-Rodríguez, V. (Eds.), 2016. Environmental Gerontology in Europe and Latin America: Policies and Perspectives on Environment and Aging, 1st ed. 2016. ed, International Perspectives on Aging. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Kah, O., Le Page, Y., Vosges, M., Tong, S.-K., Chung, B.-C., Brion, F., 2011. Neural Progenitors Are Direct Targets of Xenoestrogens in Zebrafish, in: Bourguignon, J.-P., Jégou, B., Kerdelhué, B., Toppari, J., Christen, Y. (Eds.), Multi-System Endocrine Disruption, Research and Perspectives in Endocrine Interactions. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 73–89.

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 Contaminant Hydrology.

Blog post

O`Callaghan, J., 2015. How To Make A Diamond With Acid [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/chemistry/new-theory-diamond-formation-acidic-water-proposed/ (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 2001. Telecommunications: Characteristics and Competitiveness of the Internet Backbone Market (No. GAO-02-16). 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

Gilbert, S.A., 2017. Succession Planning Relating to the Millennial Generation in Private Four-Year Universities (Doctoral dissertation). Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA.

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

Villarosa, L., 2006. Done Right, Colonoscopy Takes Time, Study Finds. New York Times F5.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Bunk, 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Bunk, 2001; Gaudet and Mango, 2002).

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

Two authors: (Gaudet and Mango, 2002)
Three or more authors: (Sawa et al., 2007)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Contaminant Hydrology
Abbreviation	J. Contam. Hydrol.
ISSN (print)	0169-7722
Scope	Environmental Chemistry Water Science and Technology