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

Sibum, H. O. 2004. “Beyond the ivory tower. What kind of science is experimental physics?” Science, 306 (5693): 60–61.

A journal article with 2 authors

Pawlowska, T. E., and J. W. Taylor. 2004. “Organization of genetic variation in individuals of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi.” Nature, 427 (6976): 733–737.

A journal article with 3 authors

Robinson, G. E., R. D. Fernald, and D. F. Clayton. 2008. “Genes and social behavior.” Science, 322 (5903): 896–900.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Meier, M. F., M. B. Dyurgerov, U. K. Rick, S. O’neel, W. T. Pfeffer, R. S. Anderson, S. P. Anderson, and A. F. Glazovsky. 2007. “Glaciers dominate eustatic sea-level rise in the 21st century.” Science, 317 (5841): 1064–1067.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Johnston, D. 2011. A Brief History of Justice. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell.

An edited book

Rimdusit, S. 2013. Alloys and Composites of Polybenzoxazines: Properties and Applications. Engineering Materials, (C. Jubsilp and S. Tiptipakorn, eds.). Singapore: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Tu, E. J.-C., and J. Wang. 2014. “Patterns and Changes in Household Structure in Hong Kong.” The Family and Social Change in Chinese Societies, The Springer Series on Demographic Methods and Population Analysis, D. L. Poston Jr., W. S. Yang, and D. N. Farris, eds., 59–77. 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

Andrews, R. 2016. “Climate Change Is Causing Chilean Mummies To Melt Into Black Sludge.” IFLScience. IFLScience. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/climate-change-chilean-mummies-melt-black-sludge/.

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. 1972. Improving the Acquisition of Computer Systems. 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

Kim, S. B. 2010. “Model uncertainty and model averaging in the estimation of benchmark dose.” 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

Sophia Kishkovsky; Compiled by. 2005. “Arts, Briefly; Russian Officials Say Looted War Art Can Stay.” New York Times, March 7, 2005.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Sibum 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Pawlowska and Taylor 2004; Sibum 2004).

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

Two authors: (Pawlowska and Taylor 2004)
Three or more authors: (Meier et al. 2007)

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