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

Smaglik, P. 2004. “Looking for a fast track.” Nature, 431 (7006): 381.

A journal article with 2 authors

Blackstock, J. J., and J. C. S. Long. 2010. “Climate change. The politics of geoengineering.” Science, 327 (5965): 527.

A journal article with 3 authors

Burrone, J., M. O’Byrne, and V. N. Murthy. 2002. “Multiple forms of synaptic plasticity triggered by selective suppression of activity in individual neurons.” Nature, 420 (6914): 414–418.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Liang, Y.-L., M. Khoshouei, G. Deganutti, A. Glukhova, C. Koole, T. S. Peat, M. Radjainia, J. M. Plitzko, W. Baumeister, L. J. Miller, D. L. Hay, A. Christopoulos, C. A. Reynolds, D. Wootten, and P. M. Sexton. 2018. “Cryo-EM structure of the active, Gs-protein complexed, human CGRP receptor.” Nature, 561 (7724): 492–497.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Heckman, R. 2016. Designing Platform Independent Mobile Apps and Services. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Jacko, J. A. (Ed.). 2011. Human-Computer Interaction. Towards Mobile and Intelligent Interaction Environments: 14th International Conference, HCI International 2011, Orlando, FL, USA, July 9-14, 2011, Proceedings, Part III. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Langston, W. J., H. Harino, and N. D. Pope. 2009. “Behaviour of Organotins in the Coastal Environment.” Ecotoxicology of Antifouling Biocides, T. Arai, H. Harino, M. Ohji, and W. J. Langston, eds., 75–94. Tokyo: Springer Japan.

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. 2014. “Emperor Penguins Are Willing To Relocate.” IFLScience. IFLScience. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/emperor-penguins-are-willing-relocate/.

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. Management Controls Over Use of ADP For Scientific Applications. 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

Belknap, B. M. 2012. “Fostering Resilience in Beginning Special Education Teachers.” Doctoral dissertation. Washington, DC: George Washington 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

Rothenberg, B. 2016. “Reaching a U.S. Apex, With a Bronze Medal in Tow.” New York Times, August 20, 2016.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Smaglik 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Blackstock and Long 2010; Smaglik 2004).

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

Two authors: (Blackstock and Long 2010)
Three or more authors: (Liang 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
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