How to format your references using the Journal of Sustainable Water in the Built Environment citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Sustainable Water in the Built Environment. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Bourzac, K. 2015. “Spiders: Web of intrigue.” Nature, 519 (7544): S4-6.

A journal article with 2 authors

Dorin, J. R., and I. J. Jackson. 2007. “Genetics. Beta-defensin repertoire expands.” Science, 318 (5855): 1395.

A journal article with 3 authors

McElwain, J. C., P. J. Wagner, and S. P. Hesselbo. 2009. “Fossil plant relative abundances indicate sudden loss of Late Triassic biodiversity in East Greenland.” Science, 324 (5934): 1554–1556.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Voyles, J., D. C. Woodhams, V. Saenz, A. Q. Byrne, R. Perez, G. Rios-Sotelo, M. J. Ryan, M. C. Bletz, F. A. Sobell, S. McLetchie, L. Reinert, E. B. Rosenblum, L. A. Rollins-Smith, R. Ibáñez, J. M. Ray, E. J. Griffith, H. Ross, and C. L. Richards-Zawacki. 2018. “Shifts in disease dynamics in a tropical amphibian assemblage are not due to pathogen attenuation.” Science, 359 (6383): 1517–1519.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ananthakrishnan, A. N., R. J. Xavier, and D. K. Podolsky. 2017. Inflammatory Bowel Diseases. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Lee, D. T., S. P. Shieh, and J. D. Tygar (Eds.). 2005. Computer Security in the 21st Century. Boston, MA: Springer US.

A chapter in an edited book

Heinzel, F. R., and B. M. Pieske. 2014. “Cardiac Arrhythmias.” Interdisciplinary Concepts in Cardiovascular Health: Volume III: Cardiovascular Events, I. Wakabayashi and K. Groschner, eds., 69–96. 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 Sustainable Water in the Built Environment.

Blog post

Fang, J. 2015. “How Reef Communities Recovered 30 Years After Nuclear Testing.” IFLScience. IFLScience. 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. 2003. Highway Infrastructure: Stakeholders’ Views on Time to Conduct Environmental Reviews of Highway Projects. 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

Warner, K. S. 2014. “The narrative structure of children’s books used in language therapy: An analysis.” 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

Wagner, J. 2017. “Bruce Arrived in Camp Expecting to Stay With Team.” New York Times, February 17, 2017.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Bourzac 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Bourzac 2015; Dorin and Jackson 2007).

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

Two authors: (Dorin and Jackson 2007)
Three or more authors: (Voyles et al. 2018)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Sustainable Water in the Built Environment
Abbreviation	J. Sustain. Water Built Environ.
ISSN (online)	2379-6111
Scope