How to format your references using the Water History citation style

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

Pockley P (2001) Funding bonanza for astronomy and biotech in Australia. Nature 412:846

A journal article with 2 authors

Wang X, Huang B (2014) Computational study of in-plane phonon transport in Si thin films. Sci Rep 4:6399

A journal article with 3 authors

Carpi F, Bauer S, De Rossi D (2010) Materials science. Stretching dielectric elastomer performance. Science 330:1759–1761

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Mitchell TM, Shinkareva SV, Carlson A, et al (2008) Predicting human brain activity associated with the meanings of nouns. Science 320:1191–1195

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Boillot M (2014) Advanced Smart Grids for Distribution System Operators: Volume 1. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Seipel D, Hanus M, Geske U, Bartenstein O (eds) (2005) Applications of Declarative Programming and Knowledge Management: 15th International Conference on Applications of Declarative Programming and Knowledge Management, INAP 2004, and 18th Workshop on Logic Programming, WLP 2004, Potsdam, Germany, March 4-6, 2004, Revised Selected Papers. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Gábor A, Banga JR (2014) Improved Parameter Estimation in Kinetic Models: Selection and Tuning of Regularization Methods. In: Mendes P, Dada JO, Smallbone K (eds) Computational Methods in Systems Biology: 12th International Conference, CMSB 2014, Manchester, UK, November 17-19, 2014, Proceedings. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 45–60

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 History.

Blog post

Andrew D (2016) Will Superfast ‘Quantum’ Computers Mean The End Of Unbreakable Encryption? In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/will-superfast-quantum-computers-mean-the-end-of-unbreakable-encryption/. Accessed 30 Oct 2018

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 (2000) Naval Ship Donation: Selection Decision for U.S.S. New Jersey Was Objective, but Selection Process Can Be Strengthened. 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

Foley JD (2012) Comparing Kac-Moody groups over the complex numbers and fields of positive characteristic via homotopy theory. Doctoral dissertation, University of California San Diego

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

Crow K (2000) You Can Take the A Train, but People Prefer to Wear the F. New York Times 1410

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Pockley 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Pockley 2001; Wang and Huang 2014).

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

Two authors: (Wang and Huang 2014)
Three or more authors: (Mitchell et al. 2008)

About the journal

Full journal title	Water History
Abbreviation	Water Hist.
ISSN (print)	1877-7236
ISSN (online)	1877-7244
Scope	History Water Science and Technology Geography, Planning and Development