How to format your references using the Water-Energy Nexus citation style

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

Ivins, E.R., 2009. Ocean science. Ice sheet stability and sea level. Science 324, 888–889.

A journal article with 2 authors

Huneycutt, A.J., Saykally, R.J., 2003. Chemistry. Building solutions--one molecule at a time. Science 299, 1329–1330.

A journal article with 3 authors

Canestrelli, D., Bisconti, R., Nascetti, G., 2014. Extensive unidirectional introgression between two salamander lineages of ancient divergence and its evolutionary implications. Sci. Rep. 4, 6516.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Weng, K.C., Castilho, P.C., Morrissette, J.M., Landeira-Fernandez, A.M., Holts, D.B., Schallert, R.J., Goldman, K.J., Block, B.A., 2005. Satellite tagging and cardiac physiology reveal niche expansion in salmon sharks. Science 310, 104–106.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Klöpffer, W., 2012. Verhalten und Abbau von Umweltchemikalien. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany.

An edited book

Prevost, L., Marinai, S., Schwenker, F. (Eds.), 2008. Artificial Neural Networks in Pattern Recognition: Third IAPR Workshop, ANNPR 2008 Paris, France, July 2-4, 2008 Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Moos, L., Krejsler, J., Laursen, P.F., 2009. Denmark, in: Scheerens, J. (Ed.), Informal Learning of Active Citizenship at School: An International Comparative Study in Seven European Countries. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp. 75–103.

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-Energy Nexus.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2015. Elon Musk Biography Portrays A Brutal Character Driven By Lofty Dreams [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 1974. Costly Requirements for Certain Control Towers, Navigation Aids, and Airport Lights (No. B-164497). 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

Hatton, J.D., 2012. The Changing Dynamics of Health Care: Physician Perceptions of Technology in Medical Practices (Doctoral dissertation). University of Phoenix, Phoenix, AZ.

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

Swarns, R.L., Robertson, C., 2015. Black Church Is Target Again for Deadly Strike at the Heart. New York Times A1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Ivins, 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Huneycutt and Saykally, 2003; Ivins, 2009).

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

Two authors: (Huneycutt and Saykally, 2003)
Three or more authors: (Weng et al., 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	Water-Energy Nexus
ISSN (print)	2588-9125
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