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

Fenton, M. B., 2011: Ecology. The world through a bat’s ear. Science, 333, 528–529.

A journal article with 2 authors

Bloch, J. I., and D. M. Boyer, 2002: Grasping primate origins. Science, 298, 1606–1610.

A journal article with 3 authors

Ye, F., M. J. Burns, and M. J. Naughton, 2014: Structured metal thin film as an asymmetric color filter: the forward and reverse plasmonic halos. Sci. Rep., 4, 7267.

A journal article with 9 or more authors

Lee, W.-L., S. Watauchi, V. L. Miller, R. J. Cava, and N. P. Ong, 2004: Dissipationless anomalous Hall current in the ferromagnetic spinel CuCr2Se4-xBrx. Science, 303, 1647–1649.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Deschamps, J.-P., G. J. A. Bioul, and G. D. Sutter, 2005: Synthesis of Arithmetic Circuits. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.,.

An edited book

Swiątek, J., A. Grzech, P. Swiątek, and J. M. Tomczak, eds., 2014: Advances in Systems Science: Proceedings of the International Conference on Systems Science 2013 (ICSS 2013). Springer International Publishing, XVI, 809 p. 273 illus pp.

A chapter in an edited book

Liñán, F., I. Jaén, and F. J. Ortega, 2015: Understanding the Role of Culture and Economic Conditions in Entrepreneurship. Entrepreneurship, Regional Development and Culture: An Institutional Perspective, M. Peris-Ortiz and J.M. Merigó-Lindahl, Eds., Springer International Publishing, 53–73.

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: There Are Rumors That Russia Are Developing A Space-Cruising Nuclear Bomber. IFLScience,. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/there-are-rumors-that-russia-are-developing-a-spacecruising-nuclear-bomber/ (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, 2006: Postsecondary Education: Multiple Tax Preferences and Title IV Student Aid Programs Create a Complex Education Financing Environment. 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

Lowry, L. A., 2017: Creative Aging in Senior Centers: A Grounded Theory Study. George Washington 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

Powell, M., 2017: Warriors Unleash Tornado of Talent, Turning the Finals Into a Breeze. New York Times, June 5.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Fenton 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Fenton 2011; Bloch and Boyer 2002).

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

Two authors: (Bloch and Boyer 2002)
Three or more authors: (Lee et al. 2004)

About the journal

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