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

Grotzinger, J. P. 2013. “Analysis of surface materials by the Curiosity Mars rover.” Science, 341 (6153): 1475.

A journal article with 2 authors

Nedeva, M., and M. Stampfer. 2012. “Science policy. From ‘science in Europe’ to ‘European science.’” Science, 336 (6084): 982–983.

A journal article with 3 authors

Aronov, D., A. S. Andalman, and M. S. Fee. 2008. “A specialized forebrain circuit for vocal babbling in the juvenile songbird.” Science, 320 (5876): 630–634.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Nakata, M., G. Zanchetta, B. D. Chapman, C. D. Jones, J. O. Cross, R. Pindak, T. Bellini, and N. A. Clark. 2007. “End-to-end stacking and liquid crystal condensation of 6 to 20 base pair DNA duplexes.” Science, 318 (5854): 1276–1279.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Grant, G. 2012. Ecosystem Services Come to Town. Oxford, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Eiter, T., and L. Libkin (Eds.). 2005. Database Theory - ICDT 2005: 10th International Conference, Edinburgh, UK, January 5-7, 2005. Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Trevisanut, A. M. 2016. “Re-membering, (Re-) appropriation, and Polyphony: SBS Independent and White Australian Memory.” Contemporary Publics: Shifting Boundaries in New Media, Technology and Culture, P. D. Marshall, G. D’Cruz, S. McDonald, and K. Lee, eds., 43–59. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK.

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, D. 2017. “Struggling To Stay Healthy In 2017? Bad Marketing Could Be To Blame.” IFLScience. IFLScience. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/struggling-to-stay-healthy-in-2017-bad-marketing-could-be-to-blame/.

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. 2004. Special Education: Additional Assistance and Better Coordination Needed among Education Offices to Help States Meet the NCLBA Teacher Requirements. 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

Basik, N. 2008. “An evolutionary approach to intuitionism and moral realism.” Doctoral dissertation. Bloomington, IN: Indiana 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

Greenhouse, L. 2007. “Oral Dissents Give Ginsburg A New Voice.” New York Times, May 31, 2007.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Grotzinger 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Grotzinger 2013; Nedeva and Stampfer 2012).

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

Two authors: (Nedeva and Stampfer 2012)
Three or more authors: (Nakata et al. 2007)

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