How to format your references using the Sustainable Water Resources Management citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Sustainable Water Resources 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	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

Hambäck PA (2010) Ecology. A green or a prickly world? Science 327:1583–1584

A journal article with 2 authors

Purugganan MD, Fuller DQ (2009) The nature of selection during plant domestication. Nature 457:843–848

A journal article with 3 authors

Iwamoto M, Matsunaga S, Oiki S (2014) Paradoxical one-ion pore behavior of the long β-helical peptide of marine cytotoxic polytheonamide B. Sci Rep 4:3636

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Tovar J, León-Avila G, Sánchez LB, et al (2003) Mitochondrial remnant organelles of Giardia function in iron-sulphur protein maturation. Nature 426:172–176

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Eidhammer I, Barsnes H, Eide GE, Martens L (2013) Computational and Statistical Methods for Protein Quantification by Mass Spectrometry. John Wiley & Sons Ltd, Oxford, UK

An edited book

Santiago-Fandiño V, Kontar YA, Kaneda Y (eds) (2015) Post-Tsunami Hazard: Reconstruction and Restoration. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Jóźwiak W, Jankowski J, Ernst T (2014) Natural Variations of the Geomagnetic Field: Observations and Application to Study of the Earth’s Interior and Ionosphere. In: Bialik R, Majdański M, Moskalik M (eds) Achievements, History and Challenges in Geophysics: 60th Anniversary of the Institute of Geophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 65–84

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 Sustainable Water Resources Management.

Blog post

Luntz S (2017) Neanderthals Invented Geology, Or At Least Rock Collecting. In: IFLScience. Accessed 30 Oct 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 (1996) Transportation and Telecommunications Issue Area: Active Assignments. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Batson G (2008) Head Start and at -risk students: Perceptions of administrators, practitioners, and parents. Doctoral dissertation, University of Phoenix

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

Feeney K (2008) A Produce Auction With an Eye to Survival. New York Times NJ9

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Hambäck 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Purugganan and Fuller 2009; Hambäck 2010).

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

Two authors: (Purugganan and Fuller 2009)
Three or more authors: (Tovar et al. 2003)

About the journal

Full journal title	Sustainable Water Resources Management
Abbreviation	Sustain. Water Resour. Manag.
ISSN (print)	2363-5037
ISSN (online)	2363-5045
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