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

Huang, A. S.-H. 2004. “Follow your nose.” Nature, 428 (6979): 221–222.

A journal article with 2 authors

Nair, S., and T. F. Schilling. 2008. “Chemokine signaling controls endodermal migration during zebrafish gastrulation.” Science, 322 (5898): 89–92.

A journal article with 3 authors

Munoz, F., P. Couteron, and S. P. Hubbell. 2012. “Comment on ‘Global correlations in tropical tree species richness and abundance reject neutrality.’” Science, 336 (6089): 1639; author reply 1639.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Rezende, E. L., J. E. Lavabre, P. R. Guimarães, P. Jordano, and J. Bascompte. 2007. “Non-random coextinctions in phylogenetically structured mutualistic networks.” Nature, 448 (7156): 925–928.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Sigee, D. C. 2005. Freshwater Microbiology. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Bajohr, F., and A. Löw (Eds.). 2016. The Holocaust and European Societies: Social Processes and Social Dynamics. The Holocaust and its Contexts. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK.

A chapter in an edited book

Pajoum Shariati, S. R., S. Moeinzadeh, and E. Jabbari. 2015. “Hydrogels for Cell Encapsulation and Bioprinting.” Bioprinting in Regenerative Medicine, Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine, K. Turksen, ed., 89–108. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

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

Carpineti, A. 2016. “Size Doesn’t Matter For Voracious Little Galaxies.” IFLScience. IFLScience. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/space/size-doesn-t-matter-for-voracious-little-galaxies/.

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. 1994. New Denver Airport: Impact of the Delayed Baggage System. 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

Ellis, G. S. 2012. “Compound-Specific Stable Isotopic Analysis of Protein Amino Acids: Ecological Applications in Modern and Ancient Systems.” Doctoral dissertation. Tampa, FL: University of South Florida.

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

Feeney, K. 2010. “That General-Store Feeling.” New York Times, December 26, 2010.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Huang 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Huang 2004; Nair and Schilling 2008).

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

Two authors: (Nair and Schilling 2008)
Three or more authors: (Rezende et al. 2007)

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