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

Rind, D. 2002. “The Sun’s role in climate variations.” Science, 296 (5568): 673–677.

A journal article with 2 authors

Rosenberg, S. A., and N. P. Restifo. 2015. “Adoptive cell transfer as personalized immunotherapy for human cancer.” Science, 348 (6230): 62–68.

A journal article with 3 authors

Xiao, Y., Y. Wang, and D. J. Felleman. 2003. “A spatially organized representation of colour in macaque cortical area V2.” Nature, 421 (6922): 535–539.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Arculus, R., I. H. Campbell, S. M. McLennan, and S. R. Taylor. 2009. “Asteroids and andesites.” Nature, 459 (7246): E1; discussion E2.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bonneau, D., A. Fatu, and D. Souchet. 2014. Mixed Lubrication in Hydrodynamic Bearings. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Finehout, E., and W.-C. Tian (Eds.). 2009. Microfluidics for Biological Applications. Boston, MA: Springer US.

A chapter in an edited book

Kovarik, P., V. Castiglia, and M. Janos. 2014. “Type I Interferons in Immune Defense Against Streptococci.” Bacterial Activation of Type I Interferons, D. Parker, ed., 43–59. 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. “New Oviraptorosaur Discovered at Railroad Construction Site in China.” 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. 1970. Activities of Washington Data Processing Center Statistical Research Service. 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

Mhatre, A. B. 2009. “Zone-Clipper.” 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

Billard, M. 2013. “Lessons From a Master Shopper.” New York Times, December 5, 2013.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Rind 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Rind 2002; Rosenberg and Restifo 2015).

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

Two authors: (Rosenberg and Restifo 2015)
Three or more authors: (Arculus et al. 2009)

About the journal

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