How to format your references using the Journal of Hydraulic Engineering citation style

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

Lang, R. F. 2010. “Astronomy. Fishing for the universe.” Science, 327 (5973): 1582–1583.

A journal article with 2 authors

Gutnisky, D. A., and V. Dragoi. 2008. “Adaptive coding of visual information in neural populations.” Nature, 452 (7184): 220–224.

A journal article with 3 authors

Sánchez-Villagra, M. R., O. Aguilera, and I. Horovitz. 2003. “The anatomy of the world’s largest extinct rodent.” Science, 301 (5640): 1708–1710.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Kemner, K. M., S. D. Kelly, B. Lai, J. Maser, E. J. O’loughlin, D. Sholto-Douglas, Z. Cai, M. A. Schneegurt, C. F. Kulpa Jr, and K. H. Nealson. 2004. “Elemental and redox analysis of single bacterial cells by x-ray microbeam analysis.” Science, 306 (5696): 686–687.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bernheim, M. L. C. 2008. Ciba Foundation Symposium 39 - Monoamine Oxidase and its Inhibition: Ciba/Monoamine. Novartis Foundation Symposia. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Brondízio, E. S., and E. F. Moran (Eds.). 2013. Human-Environment Interactions: Current and Future Directions. Human-Environment Interactions. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Brinson, M. M. 2011. “Classification of Wetlands.” Wetlands: Integrating Multidisciplinary Concepts, B. A. LePage, ed., 95–113. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

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 Hydraulic Engineering.

Blog post

Andrew, E. 2015. “Frozen Cones On Pluto – The First Discovery Of Ice Volcanoes?” IFLScience. IFLScience. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/space/frozen-cones-pluto-first-discovery-ice-volcanoes/.

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. The President’s Second Special Message for FY 1983. 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

Gallardo-Macias, R. 2009. “Tin (II) compounds as novel catalysts for the Kabachnik-Fields reaction: Studies in the synthesis of alpha-aminophosphonates under solvent free conditions and Synthesis of phosphonates and phosphates as reversible and irreversible inhibitors of butyrylcholinesterase.” 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

de la MERCED, M. J. 2017. “Activist Fund Pushes Nestlé For Shake-Up.” New York Times, June 25, 2017.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Lang 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Gutnisky and Dragoi 2008; Lang 2010).

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

Two authors: (Gutnisky and Dragoi 2008)
Three or more authors: (Kemner et al. 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Hydraulic Engineering
Abbreviation	J Hydraul Eng
ISSN (print)	0733-9429
ISSN (online)	1943-7900
Scope	Civil and Structural Engineering Mechanical Engineering Water Science and Technology