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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Hydrology: Regional Studies. 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., 2001. Big or small neuroscience? Nature 414, 3.

A journal article with 2 authors

de Groot, B.L., Grubmüller, H., 2001. Water permeation across biological membranes: mechanism and dynamics of aquaporin-1 and GlpF. Science 294, 2353–2357.

A journal article with 3 authors

Cowen, R.K., Paris, C.B., Srinivasan, A., 2006. Scaling of connectivity in marine populations. Science 311, 522–527.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Gan, X., Stegle, O., Behr, J., Steffen, J.G., Drewe, P., Hildebrand, K.L., Lyngsoe, R., Schultheiss, S.J., Osborne, E.J., Sreedharan, V.T., Kahles, A., Bohnert, R., Jean, G., Derwent, P., Kersey, P., Belfield, E.J., Harberd, N.P., Kemen, E., Toomajian, C., Kover, P.X., Clark, R.M., Rätsch, G., Mott, R., 2011. Multiple reference genomes and transcriptomes for Arabidopsis thaliana. Nature 477, 419–423.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Saccone, C., Pesole, G., 2005. Handbook of Comparative Genomics. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Biswas, P., Duarte, C., Langdon, P., Almeida, L. (Eds.), 2015. A Multimodal End-2-End Approach to Accessible Computing, 2nd ed. 2015. ed, Human–Computer Interaction Series. Springer, London.

A chapter in an edited book

Ciobanu, G., 2005. Modeling Cell-Mediated Immunity by Means of P Systems, in: Ciobanu, G., Păun, G., Pérez-Jiménez, M.J. (Eds.), Applications of Membrane Computing, Natural Computing Series. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 159–180.

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: Regional Studies.

Blog post

Andrews, R., 2017. Escaped Guatemalan Scorpion Leaps Out Of Bag On British Train [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. Briefing on Air Force’s Response on Fee-For-Service Aerial Refueling (No. GAO-10-124R). 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

Bhandari, S., 2017. The Role of System of Systems in Additive Manufacturing (Doctoral dissertation). Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS.

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

Crow, K., 2002. Go West, They Said. And So Should the 7 Train. New York Times 146.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Smaglik, 2001).
This sentence cites two references (de Groot and Grubmüller, 2001; Smaglik, 2001).

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

Two authors: (de Groot and Grubmüller, 2001)
Three or more authors: (Gan et al., 2011)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Hydrology: Regional Studies
Abbreviation	J. Hydrol. Reg. Stud.
ISSN (print)	2214-5818
Scope