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:

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

Jungkind, D. 2001. “Tech.Sight. Molecular testing for infectious disease.” Science, 294 (5546): 1553–1555.

A journal article with 2 authors

Merrell, D. S., and S. Falkow. 2004. “Frontal and stealth attack strategies in microbial pathogenesis.” Nature, 430 (6996): 250–256.

A journal article with 3 authors

Legramandi, M. A., B. Schepens, and G. A. Cavagna. 2013. “Running humans attain optimal elastic bounce in their teens.” Sci. Rep., 3: 1310.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Govindarajulu, M., P. E. Pfeffer, H. Jin, J. Abubaker, D. D. Douds, J. W. Allen, H. Bücking, P. J. Lammers, and Y. Shachar-Hill. 2005. “Nitrogen transfer in the arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis.” Nature, 435 (7043): 819–823.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Scheller-Sheridan, C. 2011. Basic Guide to Dental Instruments. West Sussex, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Gao, F. 2014. Channel Estimation for Physical Layer Network Coding Systems. SpringerBriefs in Computer Science, (C. Xing and G. Wang, eds.). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Scudder, S. J. 2008. “Anatomy of a Southwest Florida Sand Burial Mound Smith Mound at the Pineland Site Complex.” Case Studies in Environmental Archaeology, Interdisciplinary Contributions to Archaeology, E. J. Reitz, S. J. Scudder, and C. M. Scarry, eds., 81–93. 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. “Millions Of Sterile Flies Join The Fight Against Florida’s Flesh-Eating Maggots.” IFLScience. IFLScience. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/millions-of-sterile-flies-join-the-fight-against-floridas-flesheating-maggots/.

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. Highway Research: The Second Strategic Highway Research Program Addresses the Four Required Areas, but Some Anticipated Research Was Not Funded. 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

Alsobrook, J. A. 2013. “Music Education in America: A Content Analysis and National Perspective of Standards-Based Outcomes for K–8 General Music.” Doctoral dissertation. St. Charles, MO: Lindenwood 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

Greenhouse, L. 2005. “Case Reopens Abortion Issue for Justices.” New York Times, November 29, 2005.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Jungkind 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Jungkind 2001; Merrell and Falkow 2004).

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

Two authors: (Merrell and Falkow 2004)
Three or more authors: (Govindarajulu et al. 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Irrigation and Drainage Engineering
Abbreviation	J. Irrig. Drain. Eng.
ISSN (print)	0733-9437
ISSN (online)	1943-4774
Scope	Agricultural and Biological Sciences (miscellaneous) Civil and Structural Engineering Water Science and Technology