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

Rubin, D.C., 2014. Psychology. How quickly we forget. Science 346, 1058–1059.

A journal article with 2 authors

Yu, L., Lenardo, M.J., 2003. Immunology. The paracaspase connection. Science 302, 1515–1516.

A journal article with 3 authors

Ford, M.G.J., Jenni, S., Nunnari, J., 2011. The crystal structure of dynamin. Nature 477, 561–566.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Volpe, T.A., Kidner, C., Hall, I.M., Teng, G., Grewal, S.I.S., Martienssen, R.A., 2002. Regulation of heterochromatic silencing and histone H3 lysine-9 methylation by RNAi. Science 297, 1833–1837.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Péra, M.-C., Hissel, D., Gualous, H., Turpin, C., 2013. Electrochemical Components. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ USA.

An edited book

Picot, A., 2015. The Internationalization of German Software-based Companies: Sustainable Growth Strategies for Small and Medium-sized Companies, Progress in IS. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Doolin, K., Roussaki, I., Roddy, M., Kalatzis, N., Papadopoulou, E., Taylor, N., Liampotis, N., McKitterick, D., Jennings, E., Kosmides, P., 2012. SOCIETIES: Where Pervasive Meets Social, in: Álvarez, F., Cleary, F., Daras, P., Domingue, J., Galis, A., Garcia, A., Gavras, A., Karnourskos, S., Krco, S., Li, M.-S., Lotz, V., Müller, H., Salvadori, E., Sassen, A.-M., Schaffers, H., Stiller, B., Tselentis, G., Turkama, P., Zahariadis, T. (Eds.), The Future Internet: Future Internet Assembly 2012: From Promises to Reality, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 30–41.

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

Andrew, D., 2015. Electron Microscope Shows How Vinyl LP’s Are Played [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/technology/electron-microscope-shows-how-vinyl-lps-are-played/ (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, 1993. National Aero-Space Plane: A Need for Program Direction and Funding Decisions (No. NSIAD-93-207). 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

Crowley, K.M., 2019. Dynamics of Creativity: A Study of Early Drug Discovery Scientists’ Experience of Creativity (Doctoral dissertation). George Washington University, Washington, DC.

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, D., 1989. In Short: Fiction. New York Times 712.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Rubin, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Rubin, 2014; Yu and Lenardo, 2003).

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

Two authors: (Yu and Lenardo, 2003)
Three or more authors: (Volpe 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

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