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

Gershon D (2003) Mass spectrometry goes mainstream. Nature 424:581

A journal article with 2 authors

Bayraktar OA, Doe CQ (2013) Combinatorial temporal patterning in progenitors expands neural diversity. Nature 498:449–455

A journal article with 3 authors

Strassmann JE, Zhu Y, Queller DC (2000) Altruism and social cheating in the social amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum. Nature 408:965–967

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Hurford TA, Helfenstein P, Hoppa GV, et al (2007) Eruptions arising from tidally controlled periodic openings of rifts on Enceladus. Nature 447:292–294

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Geren RL (2016) Applying the Building Code. John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Brown G, Chiek Y (2016) Leibniz on Compossibility and Possible Worlds. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Xu K, Terakawa S (2013) Biochemical Studies on Myelin of the Nervous System. In: Terakawa S (ed) Myelinated Fibers and Saltatory Conduction in the Shrimp: The Fastest Impulse Conduction in the Animal Kingdom. Springer Japan, Tokyo, pp 31–34

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

Andrew E (2015) ‘Food Comas’, Or Why Eating Sometimes Makes You Sleepy. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/food-comas-or-why-eating-sometimes-makes-you-sleepy/. 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 (1988) [Comments on Responsibility for Peacetime Administration of Ready Reserve Fleet]. 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

Collins L (2009) A community risk assessment of the 90062 zip code. 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

Walsh MW, Robertson C (2011) Just Before Deadline, County in Alabama Delays Bankruptcy Move. New York Times B1

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