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:

PaperpileThe citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNoteDownload the output style file
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and othersThe style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeXBibTeX 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
Broecker, W. S. 2003. “Does the trigger for abrupt climate change reside in the ocean or in the atmosphere?” Science, 300 (5625): 1519–1522.
A journal article with 2 authors
Moore, M. J., and M. Rosbash. 2001. “Cell biology. TAPping into mRNA export.” Science, 294 (5548): 1841–1842.
A journal article with 3 authors
Korobova, F., V. Ramabhadran, and H. N. Higgs. 2013. “An actin-dependent step in mitochondrial fission mediated by the ER-associated formin INF2.” Science, 339 (6118): 464–467.
A journal article with 4 or more authors
de Anda, F. C., G. Pollarolo, J. S. Da Silva, P. G. Camoletto, F. Feiguin, and C. G. Dotti. 2005. “Centrosome localization determines neuronal polarity.” Nature, 436 (7051): 704–708.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
Lee Abbott, M., and J. McKinney. 2012. Understanding and Applying Research Design. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
An edited book
Catalano, C., M. Anzidei, and A. Napoli (Eds.). 2013. Cardiovascular CT and MR Imaging: From Technique to Clinical Interpretation. Milano: Springer.
A chapter in an edited book
Herkenhoff, L., and J. Fogli. 2013. “Normal Distributions.” Applied Statistics for Business and Management using Microsoft Excel, J. Fogli, ed., 79–116. New York, NY: Springer.

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. 2014. “Man Fails To Get ‘Eaten Alive’ By Anaconda.” IFLScience. IFLScience. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/man-fails-get-eaten-alive-anaconda-planned/.

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. 2010. Aviation Weather: Agencies Need to Improve Performance Measurement and Fully Address Key Challenges. 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
French, D. C. 2012. “A Case against E-Waste: Where One Country’s Trash is (Not) Another Country’s Treasure: Developing National E-Waste Legislation to Regulate E-Waste Exportation.” 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
Wakabayashi, D., and M. Corkery. 2017. “Walmart And Google Partner, Eyes On Amazon.” New York Times, August 23, 2017.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Broecker 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Broecker 2003; Moore and Rosbash 2001).

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

  • Two authors: (Moore and Rosbash 2001)
  • Three or more authors: (de Anda et al. 2005)

About the journal

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

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