How to format your references using the Journal of Irrigation and Drainage Engineering citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Irrigation and Drainage Engineering. 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:

PaperpileThe citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNoteDownload the output style file
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and othersThe style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeXBibTeX 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
Herrmann, M. 2014. “Plasma physics: A promising advance in nuclear fusion.” Nature, 506 (7488): 302–303.
A journal article with 2 authors
Maizels, R. M., and J. E. Allen. 2011. “Immunology. Eosinophils forestall obesity.” Science, 332 (6026): 186–187.
A journal article with 3 authors
Regenauer-Lieb, K., R. F. Weinberg, and G. Rosenbaum. 2006. “The effect of energy feedbacks on continental strength.” Nature, 442 (7098): 67–70.
A journal article with 4 or more authors
Banerjee, M., N. Banerjee, P. Bhattacharjee, D. Mondal, P. R. Lythgoe, M. Martínez, J. Pan, D. A. Polya, and A. K. Giri. 2013. “High arsenic in rice is associated with elevated genotoxic effects in humans.” Sci. Rep., 3: 2195.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
Salleh, S., A. Y. Zomaya, S. Olariu, and B. Sanugi. 2005. Numerical Simulations and Case Studies Using Visual C++.Net. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
An edited book
Naylor, P. A., and N. D. Gaubitch (Eds.). 2010. Speech Dereverberation. Signals and Commmunication Technology. London: Springer.
A chapter in an edited book
Lu, K. H., A. H. Klopp, P. T. Soliman, and R. E. Schmandt. 2013. “Increased Adiposity and Endometrial Cancer Risk.” Adipose Tissue and Cancer, M. G. Kolonin, ed., 53–69. New York, NY: Springer.

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 Irrigation and Drainage Engineering.

Blog post
Hale, T. 2016. “Photographs Of Cities From Space Have Shown A Worrying Trend.” IFLScience. IFLScience. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/photographs-of-cities-from-space-have-shown-a-worrying-trend/.

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. Global Positioning System: Challenges in Sustaining and Upgrading Capabilities Persist. Washington, DC: 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
Valenzuela, M. A. 2017. “Pitties for the Kiddies: An Animal-Assisted Therapy Program.” Doctoral dissertation. Long Beach, CA: California State University, Long Beach.

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
Williams, J. 2017. “A Guide to Graveside Tourism.” New York Times, September 27, 2017.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Herrmann 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Herrmann 2014; Maizels and Allen 2011).

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

  • Two authors: (Maizels and Allen 2011)
  • Three or more authors: (Banerjee et al. 2013)

About the journal

Full journal titleJournal of Irrigation and Drainage Engineering
AbbreviationJ. Irrig. Drain. Eng.
ISSN (print)0733-9437
ISSN (online)1943-4774
ScopeAgricultural and Biological Sciences (miscellaneous)
Civil and Structural Engineering
Water Science and Technology

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