How to format your references using the Water Environment Research citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Water Environment Research. 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	Download the output style file
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

Smaglik, P. (2002) Empire building: Vienna. Nature, 416 (6881), 4–5.

A journal article with 2 authors

Temeles, E. J.; Kress, W. J. (2003) Adaptation in a plant-hummingbird association. Science, 300 (5619), 630–633.

A journal article with 3 authors

Jewitt, D.; Aussel, H.; Evans, A. (2001) The size and albedo of the Kuiper-belt object (20000) Varuna. Nature, 411 (6836), 446–447.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Zhang, Q. M.; Li, H.; Poh, M.; Xia, F.; Cheng, Z.-Y.; Xu, H.; Huang, C. (2002) An all-organic composite actuator material with a high dielectric constant. Nature, 419 (6904), 284–287.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Böhm, M. (2005) Symmetrien in Festkörpern; Weinheim, FRG: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Gavrilova, M. L.; Tan, C. J. K.; Sourin, A. (Eds.). (2016) Transactions on Computational Science XXVIII: Special Issue on Cyberworlds and Cybersecurity. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 9590; Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Zielinska, T. (2007) Nicolaus Copernicus (1473–1543). In: Distinguished Figures in Mechanism and Machine Science: Their Contributions and Legacies Part 1 History of Mechanism and Machine Science (M. Ceccarelli, ed.), 117–134; Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

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 Environment Research.

Blog post

O`Callaghan, J. (2017, March 10) NASA Scientists Find “Lost” Spacecraft Orbiting The Moon. IFLScience; IFLScience. Retrieved October 30, 2018, from https://www.iflscience.com/space/nasa-scientists-find-lost-spacecraft-orbiting-the-moon/

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) Space Transportation System ( No. 093967); Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Hendricks, J. (2017) Playing-With the World: Toy Story’s Aesthetics and Metaphysics of Play (Doctoral dissertation); University of South Florida, Tampa, FL.

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

Gustines, G. G. (2016, August 25) Intimate Portraits of a Golden Era. New York Times, B9.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Smaglik, 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Smaglik, 2002, Temeles and Kress, 2003).

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

Two authors: (Temeles and Kress, 2003)
Three or more authors: (Zhang et al., 2002)

About the journal

Full journal title	Water Environment Research
Abbreviation	Water Environ. Res.
ISSN (print)	1061-4303
ISSN (online)	1554-7531
Scope	Environmental Chemistry Water Science and Technology General Medicine