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

Bromm, V., 2008: Astronomy. The cosmic Rosetta stone. Science, 321, 647–648.

A journal article with 2 authors

Habibi, M. K., and Y. Lu, 2014: Crack propagation in bamboo’s hierarchical cellular structure. Sci. Rep., 4, 5598.

A journal article with 3 authors

Reik, W., W. Dean, and J. Walter, 2001: Epigenetic reprogramming in mammalian development. Science, 293, 1089–1093.

A journal article with 9 or more authors

Ruban, A. V., and Coauthors, 2003: Plants lacking the main light-harvesting complex retain photosystem II macro-organization. Nature, 421, 648–652.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Stanley, W., and B. Pamela, 2017: The Complete Guide to Fundraising Management. John Wiley & Sons, Inc,.

An edited book

Zollner, T., H. Renz, and K. Asadullah, eds., 2005: Animal Models of T Cell-Mediated Skin Diseases. Springer, XIII, 291 p pp.

A chapter in an edited book

Lee, M. S., K. W. Chen, and E. Ernst, 2010: Supportive Cancer Care with Qigong. Supportive Cancer Care with Chinese Medicine, W.C.S. Cho, Ed., Springer Netherlands, 77–94.

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

Hale, T., 2016: Biologists Say They Found The First Great White Shark Nursery In Long Island. IFLScience,. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/biologists-say-they-found-the-first-great-white-shark-nursery-in-long-island/ (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, 1998: Airfield Pavement: Keeping Nation’s Runways in Good Condition Could Require Substantially Higher Spending. 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

Klein, K. A., 2009: Vocabulary acquisition via cross-situational learning. Indiana University, .

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: Wine, Cheese and Polyamory. New York Times, March 21.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Bromm 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Bromm 2008; Habibi and Lu 2014).

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

Two authors: (Habibi and Lu 2014)
Three or more authors: (Ruban et al. 2003)

About the journal

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