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

Carpenter S (2007) Careers in behavioral science. Behavioral scientists get off the trail. Science 316:1058–1059

A journal article with 2 authors

Ernst MO, Banks MS (2002) Humans integrate visual and haptic information in a statistically optimal fashion. Nature 415:429–433

A journal article with 3 authors

Klak C, Reeves G, Hedderson T (2004) Unmatched tempo of evolution in Southern African semi-desert ice plants. Nature 427:63–65

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Wogelius RA, Manning PL, Barden HE, et al (2011) Trace metals as biomarkers for eumelanin pigment in the fossil record. Science 333:1622–1626

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Drake PP, Fabozzi FJ (2010) The Basics of Finance. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Tazreiter C (2016) Fluid Security in the Asia Pacific: Transnational Lives, Human Rights and State Control, 1st ed. 2016. Palgrave Macmillan UK, London

A chapter in an edited book

Johnson B, Laszka A, Grossklags J (2015) Games of Timing for Security in Dynamic Environments. In: Khouzani M, Panaousis E, Theodorakopoulos G (eds) Decision and Game Theory for Security: 6th International Conference, GameSec 2015, London, UK, November 4-5, 2015, Proceedings. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 57–73

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

Hamilton K (2016) Bolivia’s Fast-Melting Glaciers Are Leaving Behind Lakes That Could Cause Catastrophic Floods. 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 (2008) Comments on the Office of Personnel Management’s February 20, 2008 Report to Congress Regarding the Retirement Systems Modernization. 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

Burke K (2012) Big Five personality traits and astrology: The relationship between the Moon variable and the NEO PI-R. Doctoral dissertation, Pacifica Graduate Institute

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

Walsh MW (2012) New Treasury Rules Ease 401(k) Annuity Purchase. New York Times B4

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Carpenter 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Ernst and Banks 2002; Carpenter 2007).

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

Two authors: (Ernst and Banks 2002)
Three or more authors: (Wogelius et al. 2011)

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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