How to format your references using the Journal of Hydrometeorology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Hydrometeorology. 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	Download the output style file
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

Nurse, P., 2004: Wee beasties. Nature, 432, 557.

A journal article with 2 authors

Mehl, G., and A. Labrique, 2014: Prioritizing integrated mHealth strategies for universal health coverage. Science, 345, 1284–1287.

A journal article with 3 authors

Koga, K., H. Tanaka, and X. C. Zeng, 2000: First-order transition in confined water between high-density liquid and low-density amorphous phases. Nature, 408, 564–567.

A journal article with 9 or more authors

Zhou, P., S. Yang, Q. Sun, L. Chen, P. Wang, S. Ding, and D. W. Zhang, 2014: Direct deposition of uniform high-κ dielectrics on graphene. Sci. Rep., 4, 6448.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Wahbi, M., 2013: Algorithms and Ordering Heuristics for Distributed Constraint Satisfaction Problems. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.,.

An edited book

Koh, J. H. L., 2015: Design Thinking for Education: Conceptions and Applications in Teaching and Learning. C.S. Chai, B. Wong, and H.-Y. Hong, Eds. Springer, XII, 131 p. 6 illus., 5 illus. in color pp.

A chapter in an edited book

McCune, W., 2006: Semantic Guidance for Saturation Provers. Artificial Intelligence and Symbolic Computation: 8th International Conference, AISC 2006 Beijing, China, September 20-22, 2006 Proceedings, J. Calmet, T. Ida, and D. Wang, Eds., Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer, 18–24.

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 Hydrometeorology.

Blog post

Fang, J., 2014: How A Drop of Seawater on Graphene Generates Electricity. IFLScience,. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/how-drop-seawater-graphene-generates-electricity/ (Accessed October 30, 2018).

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: Financial Literacy: The Federal Government’s Role in Empowering Americans to Make Sound Financial Choices. U.S. Government Printing Office,.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Thom, R. R., 2008: Beyond the numbers: A phenomenological study of intangible assets for small manufacturing business valuation. University of Phoenix, .

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

Walsh, M. W., 2012: Illinois Debt Takes Toll, Study Finds. New York Times, October 25.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Nurse 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Nurse 2004; Mehl and Labrique 2014).

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

Two authors: (Mehl and Labrique 2014)
Three or more authors: (Zhou et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Hydrometeorology
Abbreviation	J. Hydrometeorol.
ISSN (print)	1525-755X
ISSN (online)	1525-7541
Scope	Atmospheric Science