How to format your references using the Journal of Hydrology citation style

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

Powell, K., 2005. Getting schooled. Nature 435, 850–851.

A journal article with 2 authors

Mendelsohn, M.E., Karas, R.H., 2005. Molecular and cellular basis of cardiovascular gender differences. Science 308, 1583–1587.

A journal article with 3 authors

Truog, R.D., Kesselheim, A.S., Joffe, S., 2012. Research ethics. Paying patients for their tissue: the legacy of Henrietta Lacks. Science 337, 37–38.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Yuan, Q., Song, G., Sun, D., Ding, F., 2014. Formation of graphene grain boundaries on Cu(100) surface and a route towards their elimination in chemical vapor deposition growth. Sci. Rep. 4, 6541.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Subramanian, M.N., 2013. Plastics Additives and Testing. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Choi, S. (Ed.), 2012. Encyclopedia of Signaling Molecules. Springer, New York, NY.

A chapter in an edited book

Bengel, F.M., 2006. Positron Emission Tomography, in: Anagnostopoulos, C.D., Nihoyannopoulos, P., Bax, J.J., Wall, E. van der (Eds.), Noninvasive Imaging of Myocardial Ischemia. Springer, London, pp. 79–92.

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 Hydrology.

Blog post

Hale, T., 2016. iPhone 7 Leaks: Apple Expert Forecasts What Features To Expect On New iPhone [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, 1970. Status, Progress, and Problems in Federal Agency Accounting 1969 Annual Report (No. B-115398). 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

Frieberg, A., 2008. The Project of Reconciliation: Journalists and religious activists in Polish -German relations, 1956–1972 (Doctoral dissertation). University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC.

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., 2013. Beyond the Whimsy, Sushi With Ambition. New York Times LI7.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Powell, 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Mendelsohn and Karas, 2005; Powell, 2005).

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

Two authors: (Mendelsohn and Karas, 2005)
Three or more authors: (Yuan et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Hydrology
Abbreviation	J. Hydrol. (Amst.)
ISSN (print)	0022-1694
Scope	Water Science and Technology