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

Lissauer JJ (2006) Astronomy. Growing apart in lock step. Science 313:1054–1055

A journal article with 2 authors

Joseph SB, Swanstrom R (2014) HIV/AIDS. A fitness bottleneck in HIV-1 transmission. Science 345:136–137

A journal article with 3 authors

Duncan K, Sadanand A, Davachi L (2012) Memory’s penumbra: episodic memory decisions induce lingering mnemonic biases. Science 337:485–487

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Li J-S, Li S-L, Tang Y-J, et al (2014) Heteroatoms ternary-doped porous carbons derived from MOFs as metal-free electrocatalysts for oxygen reduction reaction. Sci Rep 4:5130

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Thatcher A (2011) God, Sex, and Gender. Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK

An edited book

Cazenave T, Winands MHM, Iida H (2014) Computer Games: Workshop on Computer Games, CGW 2013, Held in Conjunction with the 23rd International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI 2013, Beijing, China, August 3, 2013, Revised Selected Papers. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Bižić-Ionescu M, Ionescu D (2016) Crossing the Freshwater/Saline Barrier: A Phylogenetic Analysis of Bacteria Inhabiting Both Freshwater and Marine Ecosystems. In: Glibert PM, Kana TM (eds) Aquatic Microbial Ecology and Biogeochemistry: A Dual Perspective. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 35–44

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

Luntz S (2017) Tropical Biofuel Crops Can Store More Soil Carbon Than They Release. 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 (1997) FCC: Non-Voice, Non-Geostationary Mobile Satellite Service. 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

Crider MC (2012) The social and environmental effects of shrimp mariculture: Case studies of two coastal villages in Ecuador. Doctoral dissertation, Florida Atlantic 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

Sisario B (2016) Universal’s Deal for Prince’s Songwriting Rights May Bring a Wider Audience. New York Times B6

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