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

Coe, H., 2011. Atmospheric science. Aerosol chemistry and the Deepwater Horizon spill. Science 331, 1273–1274.

A journal article with 2 authors

Beg, A.A., Scheiffele, P., 2006. Neuroscience. SUMO wrestles the synapse. Science 311, 962–963.

A journal article with 3 authors

Pfennig, D.W., Harcombe, W.R., Pfennig, K.S., 2001. Frequency-dependent Batesian mimicry. Nature 410, 323.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Lobo, M.K., Covington, H.E., 3rd, Chaudhury, D., Friedman, A.K., Sun, H., Damez-Werno, D., Dietz, D.M., Zaman, S., Koo, J.W., Kennedy, P.J., Mouzon, E., Mogri, M., Neve, R.L., Deisseroth, K., Han, M.-H., Nestler, E.J., 2010. Cell type-specific loss of BDNF signaling mimics optogenetic control of cocaine reward. Science 330, 385–390.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bass, F., 2013. Guide to the Census. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Botsiou, K.E., Klapsis, A. (Eds.), 2011. The Konstantinos Karamanlis Institute for Democracy Yearbook 2011: The Global Economic Crisis and the Case of Greece, The Constantinos Karamanlis Institute for Democracy Yearbook Series. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Schröder, J., 2011. The Concept and Means of Legal Interpretation in the 18th Century, in: Morigiwa, Y., Stolleis, M., Halperin, J.-L. (Eds.), Interpretation of Law in the Age of Enlightenment: From the Rule of the King to the Rule of Law, Law and Philosophy Library. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp. 91–105.

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, D., 2016. How Brain Implants Can Let Paralysed People Move Again [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/how-brain-implants-can-let-paralysed-people-move-again/ (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, 1972. Federal Manpower Training Program--GAO Conclusions and Observations (No. B-146879). 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

Cannon, J.R., 2012. Microwave-supported acid hydrolysis for proteomics (Doctoral dissertation). University of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD.

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

(nyt), S.K., 2005. World Briefing | Europe: Russia: 7 Killed In North Caucasus Shootout. New York Times A6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Coe, 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Beg and Scheiffele, 2006; Coe, 2011).

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

Two authors: (Beg and Scheiffele, 2006)
Three or more authors: (Lobo et al., 2010)

About the journal

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