How to format your references using the Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management. 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

Schilling, G. 2000. “ASTRONOMY: The Virtual Observatory Moves Closer to Reality.” Science, 289 (5477): 238a–9a.

A journal article with 2 authors

Miniati, F., and A. Beresnyak. 2015. “Self-similar energetics in large clusters of galaxies.” Nature, 523 (7558): 59–62.

A journal article with 3 authors

Turner, G. C., F. Du, and A. Varshavsky. 2000. “Peptides accelerate their uptake by activating a ubiquitin-dependent proteolytic pathway.” Nature, 405 (6786): 579–583.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Zhang, B., Y. Zhang, Z. Wang, D. Wang, P. J. Baker, F. L. Pratt, and D. Zhu. 2014. “Candidate quantum spin liquid due to dimensional reduction of a two-dimensional honeycomb lattice.” Sci. Rep., 4: 6451.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

McCormick, K., and J. Salcedo. 2017. SPSS reg Statistics for Data Analysis and Visualization. Indianapolis, Indiana: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Hossain, M. A., S. H. Wani, S. Bhattacharjee, D. J. Burritt, and L.-S. P. Tran (Eds.). 2016. Drought Stress Tolerance in Plants, Vol 2: Molecular and Genetic Perspectives. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Dicuangco-Valdez, L., P. Moree, and P. Solé. 2014. “On the Existence of Hermitian Self-Dual Extended Abelian Group Codes.” Automorphic Forms: Research in Number Theory from Oman, Springer Proceedings in Mathematics & Statistics, B. Heim, M. Al-Baali, T. Ibukiyama, and F. Rupp, eds., 67–84. 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 Water Resources Planning and Management.

Blog post

Andrew, E. 2015. “New Study Reveals What A Single Energy Drink Does To Your Body.” IFLScience. IFLScience. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/does-single-energy-drink-really-raise-risk-heart-attack0/.

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. 1988. Tactical Airlift: Observations Concerning the Air Force’s C-27 Proposal. 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

Carrier, T. H. 2017. “Using Grunig’s Situational Theory for Analysis of Frames in Human Trafficking Awareness Organizations’ YouTube Videos.” Doctoral dissertation. Lafayette, LA: University of Louisiana.

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

Gustines, G. G. 2011. “More Than Just Comic Books, But Plenty of Those, Too.” New York Times, October 14, 2011.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Schilling 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Miniati and Beresnyak 2015; Schilling 2000).

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

Two authors: (Miniati and Beresnyak 2015)
Three or more authors: (Zhang et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management
ISSN (print)	0733-9496
ISSN (online)	1943-5452
Scope	Civil and Structural Engineering Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law Water Science and Technology Geography, Planning and Development