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

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

Press, F. 2008. “Earth science and society.” Nature, 451 (7176): 301–303.

A journal article with 2 authors

Tang, S., and D. C. Presgraves. 2009. “Evolution of the Drosophila nuclear pore complex results in multiple hybrid incompatibilities.” Science, 323 (5915): 779–782.

A journal article with 3 authors

Brandes, M., K. Willimann, and B. Moser. 2005. “Professional antigen-presentation function by human gammadelta T Cells.” Science, 309 (5732): 264–268.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Chorev, D. S., L. A. Baker, D. Wu, V. Beilsten-Edmands, S. L. Rouse, T. Zeev-Ben-Mordehai, C. Jiko, F. Samsudin, C. Gerle, S. Khalid, A. G. Stewart, S. J. Matthews, K. Grünewald, and C. V. Robinson. 2018. “Protein assemblies ejected directly from native membranes yield complexes for mass spectrometry.” Science, 362 (6416): 829–834.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

“MAX” Maxfield, C., and A. Brown. 2005. The Definitive Guide to How Computers Do Math. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Wendt, J. F. (Ed.). 2009. Computational Fluid Dynamics. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Semm, T., and K. Greene. 2013. “Globalization, Aging, and the Power of the Image.” The Symbolism of Globalization, Development, and Aging, S. L. Arxer and J. W. Murphy, eds., 59–66. New York, NY: 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 Hydrologic Engineering.

Blog post

Andrew, E. 2014. “Plants release chemical weapons and deploy insect armies in their defence.” IFLScience. IFLScience. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/plants-release-chemical-weapons-and-deploy-insect-armies-their-defence/.

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. 1990. NASA Project Status Reports: Congressional Requirements Can Be Met, but Reliability Must Be Ensured. 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

Arnold, D. M. 2017. “An Examination of Job Satisfaction Among Full-Time Faculty in a Selected Mississippi Community College.” Doctoral dissertation. Mississippi State, MS: Mississippi State University.

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

Murphy, M. J. O. 2016. “130 Years Ago: ‘War and Peace’ Finally Published in English.” New York Times, January 29, 2016.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Press 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Press 2008; Tang and Presgraves 2009).

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

Two authors: (Tang and Presgraves 2009)
Three or more authors: (Chorev et al. 2018)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Hydrologic Engineering
Abbreviation	J. Hydrol. Eng.
ISSN (print)	1084-0699
ISSN (online)	1943-5584
Scope	Civil and Structural Engineering General Environmental Science Environmental Chemistry Water Science and Technology