How to format your references using the Water Conservation Science and Engineering citation style

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

Pockley P (2001) Funding bonanza for astronomy and biotech in Australia. Nature 412:846

A journal article with 2 authors

Yao T, Cohen RE (2002) A cryptic protease couples deubiquitination and degradation by the proteasome. Nature 419:403–407

A journal article with 3 authors

Charrier I, Mathevon N, Jouventin P (2001) Mother’s voice recognition by seal pups. Nature 412:873

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Pandey A, Misra P, Bhambhani S, et al (2014) Expression of Arabidopsis MYB transcription factor, AtMYB111, in tobacco requires light to modulate flavonol content. Sci Rep 4:5018

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Saksena FB (2015) Patient Studies in Valvular, Congenital, and Rarer Forms of Cardiovascular Disease. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

de Paz M, DiSalle R (2014) Poincaré, Philosopher of Science: Problems and Perspectives. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht

A chapter in an edited book

Tunstall NE, Warr CG (2012) Chemical Communication in Insects: The Peripheral Odour Coding System of Drosophila Melanogaster. In: López-Larrea C (ed) Sensing in Nature. Springer US, New York, NY, pp 59–77

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 Conservation Science and Engineering.

Blog post

Taub B (2016) Earliest Evidence Of Right-Handedness In Hominins Could Reveal Origins Of Human Intelligence. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/earliest-evidence-right-handedness-hominins-could-reveal-origins-human-intelligence/. 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 (1972) Expenditures by the U.S. Department of Agriculture for Relocation of Offices and Related Alterations to Buildings in Michoud, Lousiana. 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

Woods RA (2017) Missouri Legislator and Administrator Perceptions of Federal Government Involvement in Education. Doctoral dissertation, Lindenwood University

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

Bernstein N (2016) Bodies Given to N.Y.U. Sent to Mass Graves. New York Times A1

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 Conservation Science and Engineering
Abbreviation	Water Conserv. Sci. Eng.
ISSN (print)	2366-3340
ISSN (online)	2364-5687
Scope