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

Kump, L.R., 2008. The rise of atmospheric oxygen. Nature 451, 277–278.

A journal article with 2 authors

Ullman, K.S., Powers, M.A., 2015. STRUCTURAL BIOLOGY. Locking down the core of the pore. Science 350, 33–34.

A journal article with 3 authors

Zhang, H., Ma, Z., Liu, J.-F., 2014. Equilibrium spin current in graphene with Rashba spin-orbit coupling. Sci. Rep. 4, 6464.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Valiullin, R., Naumov, S., Galvosas, P., Kärger, J., Woo, H.-J., Porcheron, F., Monson, P.A., 2006. Exploration of molecular dynamics during transient sorption of fluids in mesoporous materials. Nature 443, 965–968.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Lamperti, J.W., 1996. Probability: A Survey of the Mathematical Theory, Wiley Series in Probability and Statistics. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Knapp, C., Madden, V., Fowler-Kerry, S. (Eds.), 2012. Pediatric Palliative Care: Global Perspectives. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht.

A chapter in an edited book

Hill, D., 2016. Adding Value: Building Mutually Beneficial Strategic Partnerships, in: Hoffman, A. (Ed.), 50 Billion Dollar Boss: African American Women Sharing Stories of Success in Entrepreneurship and Leadership. Palgrave Macmillan US, New York, NY, pp. 47–55.

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

Hale, T., 2015. This Font Could Make It Easier To Learn Japanese [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/brain/slightly-easier-way-learn-japanese-typographic-project/ (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, 1978. Shifting the Government’s Automatic Data Processing Requirements to the Private Sector: Further Study and Better Guidance Needed (No. FGMSD-78-22). 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

Ton, N.-Q., 2015. A hierarchical wireless network architecture for building automation and control systems: Implementation and simulation study (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, 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

Crow, K., 2002. A Smaller Garage Still Looms Large to Some. New York Times 146.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Kump, 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Kump, 2008; Ullman and Powers, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Ullman and Powers, 2015)
Three or more authors: (Valiullin et al., 2006)

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