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

Quéré, Y. (2010) Academies must engage with society. Nature, 465 (7301), 1009.

A journal article with 2 authors

Barber, M. F.; Elde, N. C. (2014) Nutritional immunity. Escape from bacterial iron piracy through rapid evolution of transferrin. Science, 346 (6215), 1362–1366.

A journal article with 3 authors

Fu, A. C.; Raizen, S. A.; Shavelson, R. J. (2009) Education. The nation’s report card: a vision of large-scale science assessment. Science, 326 (5960), 1637–1638.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Izumi, Y.; Xu, L.; Tomaso, E. di; Fukumura, D.; Jain, R. K. (2002) Tumour biology: herceptin acts as an anti-angiogenic cocktail. Nature, 416 (6878), 279–280.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ginena, K.; Hamid, A. (2015) Foundations of Sharī‘ah Governance of Islamic Banks; Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Bélair, J.; Frigaard, I. A.; Kunze, H.; Makarov, R.; Melnik, R.; Spiteri, R. J. (Eds.). (2016) Mathematical and Computational Approaches in Advancing Modern Science and Engineering; Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

McGee, R. W. (2009) Disclosure&Transparency. In: Corporate Governance in Developing Economies: Country Studies of Africa, Asia and Latin America (R. W. McGee, ed.), 43–48; Boston, MA: Springer US.

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

Carpineti, A. (2016, September 21) Mysterious Luminous Blob Is A Giant Galaxy Waiting To Form. IFLScience; IFLScience. Retrieved October 30, 2018, from https://www.iflscience.com/space/mysterious-luminous-blob-is-a-giant-galaxy-waiting-to-form/

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. (2007) Transportation Security: TSA Has Made Progress in Implementing the Transportation Worker Identification Credential Program, but Challenges Remain ( No. GAO-08-133T); 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

Hayes, E. T. (2012) Musical improvisation and the creative process (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

Wagner, J. (2017, September 4) Reinvigorated Astros Finish a Sweep of the Mets. New York Times, D3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Quéré, 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Barber and Elde, 2014, Quéré, 2010).

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

Two authors: (Barber and Elde, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Izumi 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