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

Angerer P (2004) Graduate journal: the lab environment. Nature 428:238

A journal article with 2 authors

Hartland GV, Lo SS (2013) Physics. Spectroscopy beyond the single-particle limit. Science 341:36–37

A journal article with 3 authors

Sugawara T, Kano F, Murata M (2014) Rab2A is a pivotal switch protein that promotes either secretion or ER-associated degradation of (pro)insulin in insulin-secreting cells. Sci Rep 4:6952

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Lai Y, Lou X, Wang C, et al (2014) Synaptotagmin 1 and Ca2+ drive trans SNARE zippering. Sci Rep 4:4575

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Forsberg K, Mansdorf SZ (2005) Quick Selection Guide to Chemical Protective Clothing. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Laron Z, Kopchick J (eds) (2011) Laron Syndrome - From Man to Mouse: Lessons from Clinical and Experimental Experience. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Engebrigtsen AI (2016) Lost Between Protective Regimes: Roma in the Norwegian State. In: Seeberg ML, Goździak EM (eds) Contested Childhoods: Growing up in Migrancy: Migration, Governance, Identities. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 81–98

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

Andrew E (2014) Mutations of Cancer ‘Stem Cells’ Tracked For The First Time. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/mutations-cancer-‘stem-cells’-tracked-first-time/. 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 (2015) Internet Management: Structured Evaluation Could Help Assess Proposed Transition of Key Domain Name and Other Technical Functions. 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

Naqvi SZ (2017) Around the world in 15 bites: Applied perspectives on learning about food. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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

Burghardt LF (2006) An Animal Sanctuary Is Under Pressure to Move. New York Times 14WC5

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Angerer 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Angerer 2004; Hartland and Lo 2013).

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

Two authors: (Hartland and Lo 2013)
Three or more authors: (Lai et al. 2014)

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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