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

Ohnaka, M., 2004. Geophysics. Rupture in the laboratory. Science 303, 1788–1789.

A journal article with 2 authors

Iwasaki, A., Medzhitov, R., 2010. Regulation of adaptive immunity by the innate immune system. Science 327, 291–295.

A journal article with 3 authors

Poon, V.Y., Klassen, M.P., Shen, K., 2008. UNC-6/netrin and its receptor UNC-5 locally exclude presynaptic components from dendrites. Nature 455, 669–673.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Sebastian, S.E., Harrison, N., Batista, C.D., Balicas, L., Jaime, M., Sharma, P.A., Kawashima, N., Fisher, I.R., 2006. Dimensional reduction at a quantum critical point. Nature 441, 617–620.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Zhang, P.G., Chan, T., 2011. The Chinese Yuan. John Wiley & Sons (Asia) Pte. Ltd., 2 Clementi Loop, #02-01, Singapore 129809.

An edited book

Kawase, H. (Ed.), 2014. Studies on the 2011 Off the Pacific Coast of Tohoku Earthquake, Natural Disaster Science and Mitigation Engineering: DPRI reports. Springer Japan, Tokyo.

A chapter in an edited book

Borst, D.E., Boatright, J.H., Nickerson, J.M., 2008. Molecular Biology of IRBP and Its Role in the Visual Cycle, in: Tombran-Tink, J., Barnstable, C.J. (Eds.), Visual Transduction and Non-Visual Light Perception. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ, pp. 87–122.

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

Davis, J., 2016. SpaceX To Deliver Radiation-Eating Fungi From Chernobyl To The ISS [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/space/spacex-to-deliver-radiationeating-fungi-from-chernobyl-to-the-iss/ (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, 2011. Cost and Legal Authority for Selected Financial Literacy Programs and Activities (No. GAO-11-781R). 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

Schellenberg, D.L., 2010. Divorced women, poverty, and the Social Security Act: A policy analysis (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, 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

Dynarski, S., 2016. America Can Fix Its Student Loan Crisis. Ask Australia. New York Times BU6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Ohnaka, 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Iwasaki and Medzhitov, 2010; Ohnaka, 2004).

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

Two authors: (Iwasaki and Medzhitov, 2010)
Three or more authors: (Sebastian et al., 2006)

About the journal

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