How to format your references using the Water citation style

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

Reed, C. Winter Is Coming. Science 2014, 344, 1054.

A journal article with 2 authors

Ghosh, B.; Urban, M.W. Self-Repairing Oxetane-Substituted Chitosan Polyurethane Networks. Science 2009, 323, 1458–1460.

A journal article with 3 authors

Batista, F.D.; Iber, D.; Neuberger, M.S. B Cells Acquire Antigen from Target Cells after Synapse Formation. Nature 2001, 411, 489–494.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Noonan, J.P.; Hofreiter, M.; Smith, D.; Priest, J.R.; Rohland, N.; Rabeder, G.; Krause, J.; Detter, J.C.; Pääbo, S.; Rubin, E.M. Genomic Sequencing of Pleistocene Cave Bears. Science 2005, 309, 597–599.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

You, H.; Jianjuan, X.; Xin, G. Radar Data Processing with Applications; John Wiley &;#38; Sons Singapore Pte. Ltd: Singapore, 2016; ISBN 9781118956878.

An edited book

Combinatorial Optimization and Applications: Third International Conference, COCOA 2009, Huangshan, China, June 10-12, 2009. Proceedings; Du, D.-Z., Hu, X., Pardalos, P.M., Eds.; Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2009; Vol. 5573; ISBN 9783642020254.

A chapter in an edited book

Suijkerbuijk, K.P.M.; van der Wall, E.; van Diest, P.J. Hormone Receptors in Breast Cancer. In Molecular Pathology of Breast Cancer; Badve, S., Gökmen-Polar, Y., Eds.; Springer International Publishing: Cham, 2016; pp. 45–58 ISBN 9783319417592.

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 Water.

Blog post

Hale, T. Colossal Danish Wind Turbine Breaks 24-Hour Energy Output Record (accessed on 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 Aircraft Maintenance: Additional FAA Oversight Needed of Aging Aircraft Repairs (Vol. I); U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 1991;

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Pappenfus, B.J. How Frequency of Change within Organizations Affects Burnout of Human Resource Professionals. Doctoral dissertation, Capella University: Minneapolis, MN, 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

Longman, J. For the World’s Best Players, Italy Isn’t the Lure It Once Was. New York Times 2009, B10.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Water
Abbreviation	Water (Basel)
ISSN (online)	2073-4441
Scope	Aquatic Science Biochemistry Water Science and Technology Geography, Planning and Development