How to format your references using the Journal of Hydro-environment Research citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Hydro-environment Research. 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

Pronin, E., 2008. How we see ourselves and how we see others. Science 320, 1177–1180.

A journal article with 2 authors

Lazzaro, B.P., Rolff, J., 2011. Immunology. Danger, microbes, and homeostasis. Science 332, 43–44.

A journal article with 3 authors

Fang, Y., Seong, N.-H., Dlott, D.D., 2008. Measurement of the distribution of site enhancements in surface-enhanced Raman scattering. Science 321, 388–392.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Brasier, M.D., Green, O.R., Jephcoat, A.P., Kleppe, A.K., Van Kranendonk, M.J., Lindsay, J.F., Steele, A., Grassineau, N.V., 2002. Questioning the evidence for Earth’s oldest fossils. Nature 416, 76–81.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Worth, S.M., 2010. The Association Guide to Going Global. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Altmann, K.-. H., 2009. The Epothilones: An Outstanding Family of Anti-Tumor Agents: From Soil to the Clinic, Fortschritte der Chemie organischer Naturstoffe / Progress in the Chemistry of Organic Natural Products. Springer, Vienna.

A chapter in an edited book

Gardbaum, S., 2016. Decoupling Judicial Review from Judicial Supremacy, in: Bustamante, T., Gonçalves Fernandes, B. (Eds.), Democratizing Constitutional Law: Perspectives on Legal Theory and the Legitimacy of Constitutionalism, Law and Philosophy Library. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 93–118.

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 Hydro-environment Research.

Blog post

Fang, J., 2015. Mini Colons Grown in the Lab from Tumors [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL (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, 1975. Programs at the U.S. Army School of the Americas in Panama (No. ID-76-27). 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

Hartley, D.L., 2010. Transnational jazz and blues: Aural aesthetics and African diasporic fiction (Doctoral dissertation). University of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD.

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

Gustines, G.G., 2010. Graphic Evidence Of Comics Fanatics. New York Times C25.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Pronin, 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Lazzaro and Rolff, 2011; Pronin, 2008).

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

Two authors: (Lazzaro and Rolff, 2011)
Three or more authors: (Brasier et al., 2002)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Hydro-environment Research
Abbreviation	J. Hydroenviron. Res.
ISSN (print)	1570-6443
Scope	Civil and Structural Engineering Environmental Chemistry Environmental Engineering Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law Water Science and Technology