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

Smaglik, P., 2004. Bricks & mortar: Lancaster Environment Centre. Nature 427, 270.

A journal article with 2 authors

Fries-Gaither, J., Lightle, K., 2011. SPORE series winner. Penguins and polar bears integrates science and literacy. Science 331, 413–414.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bingenheimer, J.B., Brennan, R.T., Earls, F.J., 2005. Firearm violence exposure and serious violent behavior. Science 308, 1323–1326.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Kristiansen, M., Graversen, J.H., Jacobsen, C., Sonne, O., Hoffman, H.J., Law, S.K., Moestrup, S.K., 2001. Identification of the haemoglobin scavenger receptor. Nature 409, 198–201.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

McCrary, S.A., 2010. Mastering Corporate Finance Essentials. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Alcaro, R., Peterson, J., Greco, E. (Eds.), 2016. The West and the Global Power Shift: Transatlantic Relations and Global Governance, Palgrave Studies in European Union Politics. Palgrave Macmillan UK, London.

A chapter in an edited book

Umetsu, D.T., DeKruyff, R.H., 2009. Hepatitis A virus, TIM-1 and allergy, in: Rook, G.A.W. (Ed.), The Hygiene Hypothesis and Darwinian Medicine. Birkhäuser, Basel, pp. 77–92.

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 X.

Blog post

Andrew, D., 2016. What You See Is Not Always What You Get: How Virtual Reality Can Manipulate Our Minds [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, 2016. Aviation Safety: FAA’s Risk-Based Oversight for Repair Stations Could Benefit from Additional Airline Data and Performance Metrics [Reissued on September 2, 2016] (No. GAO-16-679). 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

Moris, F.A., 2015. International Trade in Research and Development Services and the Activity of MNC Subsidiaries (Doctoral dissertation). George Washington University, Washington, DC.

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

Lee, L., 2011. 10 Young Upstarts Strut Their Stuff in Miami. New York Times D3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Smaglik, 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Fries-Gaither and Lightle, 2011; Smaglik, 2004).

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

Two authors: (Fries-Gaither and Lightle, 2011)
Three or more authors: (Kristiansen et al., 2001)

About the journal

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