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

Schmidt, C., 2015. Immunology: Another shot at cancer. Nature 527, S105-7.

A journal article with 2 authors

Bandyopadhyay, P.R., Hellum, A.M., 2014. Modeling how shark and dolphin skin patterns control transitional wall-turbulence vorticity patterns using spatiotemporal phase reset mechanisms. Sci. Rep. 4, 6650.

A journal article with 3 authors

Afek, I., Ambar, O., Silberberg, Y., 2010. High-NOON states by mixing quantum and classical light. Science 328, 879–881.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Redman, R.S., Sheehan, K.B., Stout, R.G., Rodriguez, R.J., Henson, J.M., 2002. Thermotolerance generated by plant/fungal symbiosis. Science 298, 1581.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Sharma, Y.C., 2011. A Guide to the Economic Removal of Metals from Aqueous Solutions. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Holt, T.J., 2016. Data Thieves in Action: Examining the International Market for Stolen Personal Information, Palgrave Studies in Cybercrime and Cybersecurity. Palgrave Macmillan US, New York, NY.

A chapter in an edited book

Ali, B.A., Pushpavanam, S., 2010. PIV Techniques in Experimental Measurement of Two Phase (Gas-Liquid) Systems, in: Krishnan, J.M., Deshpande, A.P., Kumar, P.B.S. (Eds.), Rheology of Complex Fluids. Springer, New York, NY, pp. 111–129.

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., 2014. Jet Car Could Travel 550mph [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, 1987. Strategic Forces: Supportability, Maintainability, and Readiness of the B-1B Bomber (No. NSIAD-87-177BR). 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

Meluzzi, D., 2013. Computational Analysis of DNA Interactions to Investigate the Spatial Organization of Chromatin (Doctoral dissertation). University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA.

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

Kelly, K., 2017. A Piece of Obama’s Life, Post-Presidency: Sandwiches and Speeches. New York Times B1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Schmidt, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Bandyopadhyay and Hellum, 2014; Schmidt, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Bandyopadhyay and Hellum, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Redman et al., 2002)

About the journal

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