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

Pauluis, O.M., 2015. Atmospheric science. The global engine that could. Science 347, 475–476.

A journal article with 2 authors

Tabas, I., Glass, C.K., 2013. Anti-inflammatory therapy in chronic disease: challenges and opportunities. Science 339, 166–172.

A journal article with 3 authors

Rikkinen, J., Oksanen, I., Lohtander, K., 2002. Lichen guilds share related cyanobacterial symbionts. Science 297, 357.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Fu, Q., Johanson, C.M., Warren, S.G., Seidel, D.J., 2004. Contribution of stratospheric cooling to satellite-inferred tropospheric temperature trends. Nature 429, 55–58.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kompare, D., 2010. CSI. Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK.

An edited book

Blanc-Talon, J., Bone, D., Philips, W., Popescu, D., Scheunders, P. (Eds.), 2010. Advanced Concepts for Intelligent Vision Systems: 12th International Conference, ACIVS 2010, Sydney, Australia, December 13-16, 2010, Proceedings, Part I, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Zimmermann, R.J., 2008. Equity Considerations in the Access to Higher Education in Central and Eastern Europe, in: Zajda, J., Biraimah, K., Gaudelli, W. (Eds.), Education and Social Inequality in the Global Culture. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp. 71–83.

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., 2017. For $8,000, This Startup Will Fill Your Veins With The Blood Of Young People — But It Has No Idea If It’ll Have Any Benefits [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/for-8000-this-startup-will-fill-your-veins-with-the-blood-of-young-people-but-it-has-no-idea-if-itll-have-any-benefits/ (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, 1980. Congressional Oversight: Reality and Reform (No. 113595). 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

Moss, K.A., 2017. The Development and Diffusion of the Cult of Isis in the Hellenistic Period (Doctoral dissertation). University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ.

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

Brantley, B., 2017. High Society Soaked in Bathtub Gin. New York Times C5.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Pauluis, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Pauluis, 2015; Tabas and Glass, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Tabas and Glass, 2013)
Three or more authors: (Fu et al., 2004)

About the journal

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