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

Fink, D. W., Jr. 2009. “FDA regulation of stem cell-based products.” Science, 324 (5935): 1662–1663.

A journal article with 2 authors

Pouille, F., and M. Scanziani. 2004. “Routing of spike series by dynamic circuits in the hippocampus.” Nature, 429 (6993): 717–723.

A journal article with 3 authors

Carazo-Salas, R. E., C. Antony, and P. Nurse. 2005. “The kinesin Klp2 mediates polarization of interphase microtubules in fission yeast.” Science, 309 (5732): 297–300.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Perraki, A., T. A. DeFalco, P. Derbyshire, J. Avila, D. Séré, J. Sklenar, X. Qi, L. Stransfeld, B. Schwessinger, Y. Kadota, A. P. Macho, S. Jiang, D. Couto, K. U. Torii, F. L. H. Menke, and C. Zipfel. 2018. “Author Correction: Phosphocode-dependent functional dichotomy of a common co-receptor in plant signalling.” Nature.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Warren, A. 2013. Dunes. Oxford: John Wiley & Sons.

An edited book

Saito, T., J. Yamashita, Y. Oka, and Y. Ishiwatari (Eds.). 2011. Advances in Light Water Reactor Technologies. New York, NY: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Garlaschi, G., L. Satragno, E. Silvestri, and E. La Paglia. 2008. “Rachide Infiammatorio Non Infettivo.” Imaging del rachide: Il vecchio e il nuovo, F. Martino, ed., 41–60. Milano: Springer.

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

Hale, T. 2015. “Neil deGrasse Explains How Batman Could Defeat Superman.” IFLScience. IFLScience. Accessed October 30, 2018.

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. 2017. Health Information Technology: HHS Should Assess the Effectiveness of Its Efforts to Enhance Patient Access to and Use of Electronic Health Information. 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

Al-Alawadhi, F. 2014. “Oral History of Women Educators in Kuwait: A Comparative Model of Care Ethics Between Noddings and Al-Ghazali.” Doctoral dissertation. Cincinnati, OH: University of Cincinnati.

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

Kishkovsky, S., and D. M. Herszenhorn. 2012. “Punk Band’s Moscow Trial Offers Platform for Orthodox Protesters.” New York Times, August 9, 2012.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Fink 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Fink 2009; Pouille and Scanziani 2004).

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

Two authors: (Pouille and Scanziani 2004)
Three or more authors: (Perraki et al. 2018)

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