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

Macilwain C (2014) Emerging powers need a more-inclusive science. Nature 505:7

A journal article with 2 authors

Bialek W, Botstein D (2004) Introductory science and mathematics education for 21st-Century biologists. Science 303:788–790

A journal article with 3 authors

Green ED, Guyer MS, National Human Genome Research Institute (2011) Charting a course for genomic medicine from base pairs to bedside. Nature 470:204–213

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Wei P, Zhang J, Egan-Hafley M, et al (2000) The nuclear receptor CAR mediates specific xenobiotic induction of drug metabolism. Nature 407:920–923

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Moloney MG (2015) How to Solve Organic Reaction Mechanisms. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Brown BM, Lang J, Wood IG (eds) (2012) Spectral Theory, Function Spaces and Inequalities: New Techniques and Recent Trends. Springer, Basel

A chapter in an edited book

Mulloy PA (2014) China Leveraged the West to Grow Its Economy and Its Comprehensive National Power. In: Anderson DM (ed) Leveraging: A Political, Economic and Societal Framework. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 67–79

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

Fang J (2014) These Wasps Have Zinc-Tipped Drill Bits. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/these-wasps-have-zinc-tipped-drill-bits/. 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 (2001) Human Capital: Attracting and Retaining a High-Quality Information Technology Workforce. 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

Nakano AM (2012) Community college swirlers and the transfer function. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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

Gordon MR (2017) U.S. Plan for Afghanistan May Help, but Few Expect ‘Outright Victory.’ New York Times A11

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Macilwain 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Bialek and Botstein 2004; Macilwain 2014).

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

Two authors: (Bialek and Botstein 2004)
Three or more authors: (Wei et al. 2000)

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