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

Feldman, J., 2000. Minimization of Boolean complexity in human concept learning. Nature 407, 630–633.

A journal article with 2 authors

Graf, T., Enver, T., 2009. Forcing cells to change lineages. Nature 462, 587–594.

A journal article with 3 authors

Yamaguchi, M., Shiga, M., Kaburaki, H., 2005. Grain boundary decohesion by impurity segregation in a nickel-sulfur system. Science 307, 393–397.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Magain, P., Letawe, G., Courbin, F., Jablonka, P., Jahnke, K., Meylan, G., Wisotzki, L., 2005. Discovery of a bright quasar without a massive host galaxy. Nature 437, 381–384.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Perlmutter, D.D., Rothstein, R.L., 2010. The Challenge of Climate Change. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Yazici, M. (Ed.), 2011. Non-Idiopathic Spine Deformities in Young Children. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Futer, D., Kalfagianni, E., Purcell, J., 2013. I-Bundles and Essential Product Disks, in: Kalfagianni, E., Purcell, J. (Eds.), Guts of Surfaces and the Colored Jones Polynomial, Lecture Notes in Mathematics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 53–72.

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

Hamilton, K., 2014. Does My Voice Really Sound Like That? [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/brain/does-my-voice-really-sound/ (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, 2010. Contracting Strategies: Better Data and Management Needed to Leverage Value of Interagency and Enterprisewide Contracts (No. GAO-10-862T). 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

Kreisel, M., 2015. Gabor frames for quasicrystals and K-theory (Doctoral dissertation). University of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD.

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

Billard, M., 2010. Scouting Report. New York Times E5.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Feldman, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Feldman, 2000; Graf and Enver, 2009).

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

Two authors: (Graf and Enver, 2009)
Three or more authors: (Magain et al., 2005)

About the journal

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