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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Hydrology X. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Robel, A., 2015. Climate science: The long future of Antarctic melting. Nature 526, 327–328.

A journal article with 2 authors

Gibson, D.G., Venter, J.C., 2014. Synthetic biology: Construction of a yeast chromosome. Nature 509, 168–169.

A journal article with 3 authors

Fujisawa, K., Wrana, J.L., Culotti, J.G., 2007. The slit receptor EVA-1 coactivates a SAX-3/Robo mediated guidance signal in C. elegans. Science 317, 1934–1938.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Freedman, J.P., Leach, J.H., Preble, E.A., Sitar, Z., Davis, R.F., Malen, J.A., 2013. Universal phonon mean free path spectra in crystalline semiconductors at high temperature. Sci. Rep. 3, 2963.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Barrett-Lennard, G.T., 2014. The Relationship Inventory. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Fischer, X., Daidie, A., Eynard, B., Paredes, M. (Eds.), 2016. Research in Interactive Design (Vol. 4): Mechanics, Design Engineering and Advanced Manufacturing, 1st ed. 2016. ed. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Sánchez, J., Guinaldo, M., Dormido, S., 2015. Event-Triggered Anticipative Control over Packet-Based Networks, in: Guinaldo Losada, M., Rodríguez Rubio, F., Dormido Bencomo, S. (Eds.), Asynchronous Control for Networked Systems. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 79–110.

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 X.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2013. Scientists have created a blueprint for a prosthetic hand with a sense of touch [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, 2009. Aviation Weather: FAA and the National Weather Service Are Considering Plans to Consolidate Weather Service Offices, But Face Significant Challenges (No. GAO-09-887T). 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

Zanjani, F., 2014. Leadership and decision making of successful Iranian American (Doctoral dissertation). Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA.

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

Fitzsimmons, E.G., 2017. Cuomo Declares State of Emergency for Subway, Citing System’s Dysfunction. New York Times A23.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Robel, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Gibson and Venter, 2014; Robel, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Gibson and Venter, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Freedman et al., 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Hydrology X
ISSN (print)	2589-9155
Scope