How to format your references using the Proceedings of the International Association of Hydrological Sciences citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Proceedings of the International Association of Hydrological Sciences. 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

Wunsch, C.: Oceanography. What is the thermohaline circulation?, Science, 298, 1179–1181, 2002.

A journal article with 2 authors

Belloc, E. and Méndez, R.: A deadenylation negative feedback mechanism governs meiotic metaphase arrest, Nature, 452, 1017–1021, 2008.

A journal article with 3 authors

Humphries, M. M., Thomas, D. W., and Speakman, J. R.: Climate-mediated energetic constraints on the distribution of hibernating mammals, Nature, 418, 313–316, 2002.

A journal article with 100 or more authors

Zhang, Y.-L., Wang, H., Jing, L., Mu, L.-Z., and Fan, H.: Fitting magnetic field gradient with Heisenberg-scaling accuracy, Sci. Rep., 4, 7390, 2014.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Schulze, V.: Modern Mechanical Surface Treatment, Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, FRG, 2005.

An edited book

Hodler, J., Schulthess, G. K. von, Kubik-Huch, R. A., and Zollikofer, C. L. (Eds.): Diseases of the Abdomen and Pelvis 2014–2017: Diagnostic Imaging and Interventional Techniques, Springer, Milano, XI, 336 p pp., 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

Ambruster, C. W., Hull, A. B., Koch, R. H., and Mitchell, R. J.: The Pierce-Blitzstein Photometer, in: Astronomical Photometry: Past, Present, and Future, edited by: Milone, E. F. and Sterken, C., Springer, New York, NY, 85–107, 2011.

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 Proceedings of the International Association of Hydrological Sciences.

Blog post

Scientists Grow Mini Brains From Patient Skin Cells: https://www.iflscience.com/brain/scientists-grow-mini-brains-patient-skin-cells/, last access: 30 October 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: Transportation Security: Action Needed to Strengthen TSA’s Security Threat Assessment Process, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2013.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Woods, R. A.: Missouri Legislator and Administrator Perceptions of Federal Government Involvement in Education, Doctoral dissertation, Lindenwood University, St. Charles, MO, 2017.

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

Yeh, J.: A Mother. A Death. A Memoir. It’s Tricky, New York Times, 12th June, C1, 2017.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Wunsch, 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Belloc and Méndez, 2008; Wunsch, 2002).

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

Two authors: (Belloc and Méndez, 2008)
Three or more authors: (Zhang et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Proceedings of the International Association of Hydrological Sciences
ISSN (print)	2199-8981
ISSN (online)	2199-899X
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