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

Moses, M., 2009. Being human: engineering: worldwide ebb. Nature 457, 660–661.

A journal article with 2 authors

Martí, M.C., Webb, A.A.R., 2014. Plant science: leaf veins share the time of day. Nature 515, 352–353.

A journal article with 3 authors

Morgan, M.G., Houghton, A., Gibbons, J.H., 2001. Science and government. Improving science and technology advice for Congress. Science 293, 1999–2000.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Zhang, Q., Xu, Y.-S., Huang, L., Xue, W., Sun, G.-Q., Zhang, M.-X., Yu, F.-H., 2014. Does mechanical disturbance affect the performance and species composition of submerged macrophyte communities? Sci. Rep. 4, 4888.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Center for Chemical Process Safety, 1996. Guidelines for Use of Vapor Cloud Dispersion Models. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Uden, L., Heričko, M., Ting, I.-H. (Eds.), 2015. Knowledge Management in Organizations: 10th International Conference, KMO 2015, Maribor, Slovenia, August 24-28, 2015, Proceedings, 1st ed. 2015. ed, Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Zhang, Y., Guo, D., 2015. Over-Determined and Under-Determined Systems of Time-Varying Linear Equations, in: Guo, D. (Ed.), Zhang Functions and Various Models. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 61–73.

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

O`Callaghan, J., 2016. Distant Exoplanets Around Other Stars More Likely To Be Ice Giants Like Neptune [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, 1990. Quality Management: Scoping Study (No. ACG/OPS-91-1). 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

Igualada, M.O., 2015. The beliefs of advanced placement teachers regarding equity and access to advanced placement courses: A mixed-methods study (Doctoral dissertation). Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL.

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

Kolomatsky, M., 2017. Cyclists: Where to Live in New York. New York Times RE2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Moses, 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Martí and Webb, 2014; Moses, 2009).

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

Two authors: (Martí and Webb, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Zhang 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