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

Shelly, D.R., 2010. Periodic, chaotic, and doubled earthquake recurrence intervals on the deep San Andreas fault. Science 328, 1385–1388.

A journal article with 2 authors

Ohtomo, A., Hwang, H.Y., 2004. A high-mobility electron gas at the LaAlO3/SrTiO3 heterointerface. Nature 427, 423–426.

A journal article with 3 authors

Cusick, R.D., Kim, Y., Logan, B.E., 2012. Energy capture from thermolytic solutions in microbial reverse-electrodialysis cells. Science 335, 1474–1477.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Liu, Y.-Q., Wang, F.-X., Xiao, Y., Peng, H.-D., Zhong, H.-J., Liu, Z.-H., Pan, G.-B., 2014. Facile microwave-assisted synthesis of Klockmannite CuSe nanosheets and their exceptional electrical properties. Sci. Rep. 4, 5998.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ramirez, J., 2007. Accounting for Derivatives. John Wiley & Sons Ltd, Oxford, UK.

An edited book

Graham, R.L., Nešetřil, J., Butler, S. (Eds.), 2013. The Mathematics of Paul Erdős I, 2nd ed. 2013. ed. Springer, New York, NY.

A chapter in an edited book

Miron, A.-D., Gensel, J., Villanova-Oliver, M., 2008. Semantic Analysis for the Geospatial Web – Application to OWL-DL Ontologies, in: Bertolotto, M., Ray, C., Li, X. (Eds.), Web and Wireless Geographical Information Systems: 8th International Symposium, W2GIS 2008, Shanghai, China, December 11-12, 2008. Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 37–49.

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

Fang, J., 2014. Human Stem Cells Help Grow Long Axons in Rat Spines [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/human-stem-cells-help-grow-long-axons-rat-spines/ (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, 1997. 1998 NASA Budget: Review of Selected Activities (No. NSIAD-97-252R). 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

Delaney, D.C., 2014. Undergraduate social work students’ perceptions regarding hospice and end-of-life care (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

Greenhouse, L., 2007. Clues to the New Dynamic on the Supreme Court. New York Times A11.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Shelly, 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Ohtomo and Hwang, 2004; Shelly, 2010).

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

Two authors: (Ohtomo and Hwang, 2004)
Three or more authors: (Liu et al., 2014)

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