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

Sherrill, B. M.: Physics. Designer atomic nuclei, Science, 320, 751–752, 2008.

A journal article with 2 authors

Yang, J. and Reth, M.: Oligomeric organization of the B-cell antigen receptor on resting cells, Nature, 467, 465–469, 2010.

A journal article with 3 authors

Roberts, R. B., Ser, J. R., and Kocher, T. D.: Sexual conflict resolved by invasion of a novel sex determiner in Lake Malawi cichlid fishes, Science, 326, 998–1001, 2009.

A journal article with 100 or more authors

Lu, Y., Yao, J., Yu, J., Wei, Q., and Cao, X.: The association between abnormal microRNA-10b expression and cancer risk: a meta-analysis, Sci. Rep., 4, 7498, 2014.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Dorsey, J. R.: Y-Size Your Business, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2009.

An edited book

Bower, J. M. (Ed.): 20 Years of Computational Neuroscience, Springer, New York, NY, XIV, 283 p pp., 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

Duistermaat, J. J. and Kolk, J. A. C.: Convergence of Distributions, in: Distributions: Theory and Applications, edited by: Kolk, J. A. C., Birkhäuser, Boston, MA, 51–58, 2010.

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

Burst of Innovation Found in Jurassic Mammals:

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: Federal Lands: Enhanced Planning Could Assist Agencies in Managing Increased Use of Off-Highway Vehicles, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2009.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Bible, P. W.: Integrating Heterogeneous Datasets for Functional Profiling of Transcription Factors and Their Target Genes, Doctoral dissertation, University of Louisiana, Lafayette, LA, 2013.

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

Shpigel, B.: Helping Hands for Damaged Limbs, New York Times, 15th September, B11, 2016.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Sherrill, 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Sherrill, 2008; Yang and Reth, 2010).

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

Two authors: (Yang and Reth, 2010)
Three or more authors: (Lu 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
Scope

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