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

Kruzic, J.J., 2009. Materials science. Predicting fatigue failures. Science 325, 156–158.

A journal article with 2 authors

Costache, M.V., Valenzuela, S.O., 2010. Experimental spin ratchet. Science 330, 1645–1648.

A journal article with 3 authors

Sazonov, S.Y., Lutovinov, A.A., Sunyaev, R.A., 2004. An apparently normal gamma-ray burst with an unusually low luminosity. Nature 430, 646–648.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Chauhan, P., Jain, R., Dey, B., Tyagi, A.K., 2013. Adjunctive immunotherapy with α-crystallin based DNA vaccination reduces Tuberculosis chemotherapy period in chronically infected mice. Sci. Rep. 3, 1821.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Veasey, D.A., McCormick, L.C., Hilyer, B.M., Oldfield, K.W., Hansen, S., Krayer, T.H., 2005. Confined Space Entry and Emergency Response. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Ferreira, J., Dougados, C., Whelan, E. (Eds.), 2007. Jets from Young Stars: Models and Constraints, Lecture Notes in Physics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Stichelbaut, B., De Clercq, W., Herremans, D., Bourgeois, J., 2013. First World War Aerial Photography and Medieval Landscapes: Moated Sites in Flanders, in: Hanson, W.S., Oltean, I.A. (Eds.), Archaeology from Historical Aerial and Satellite Archives. Springer, New York, NY, pp. 69–85.

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

Andrew, D., 2016. Meet Viserion And Drogon: The New Ant Species Named After The Game Of Thrones Dragons [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/meet-viserion-and-drogon-the-new-ant-species-named-after-the-game-of-thrones-dragons/ (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, 1983. Review of the Upward Bound Program (No. HRD-83-19). 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

Gupta, P., 2017. Enhanced acquisition of data in the presence of transfaulty nodes in a wireless sensor network (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

Kelly, T., 2006. Performing Miracles, With Wrench and Rivet. New York Times 144.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Kruzic, 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Costache and Valenzuela, 2010; Kruzic, 2009).

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

Two authors: (Costache and Valenzuela, 2010)
Three or more authors: (Chauhan et al., 2013)

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