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

Sydnes LK (2013) Policy: Update the Chemical Weapons Convention. Nature 496:25–26

A journal article with 2 authors

Federman SR, Young ED (2009) Comment on “Experimental test of self-shielding in vacuum ultraviolet photodissociation of CO.” Science 324:1516; author reply 1516

A journal article with 3 authors

Powell KI, Chase JM, Knight TM (2013) Invasive plants have scale-dependent effects on diversity by altering species-area relationships. Science 339:316–318

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Kimura K-I, Ote M, Tazawa T, Yamamoto D (2005) Fruitless specifies sexually dimorphic neural circuitry in the Drosophila brain. Nature 438:229–233

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Perez A (2013) Voice Over LTE. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ USA

An edited book

Quirk TJ (2014) Excel 2010 for Human Resource Management Statistics: A Guide to Solving Practical Problems. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Nešetřil J, de Mendez PO (2012) Measuring Sparsity. In: Ossona de Mendez P (ed) Sparsity: Graphs, Structures, and Algorithms. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 61–88

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

Taub B (2016) Indonesian Birds Face Extinction Thanks To Illegal Pet Trade. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/indonesian-birds-face-extinction-thanks-illegal-pet-trade/. 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 (2003) Airline Labor Relations: Information on Trends and Impact of Labor Actions. 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

Clark KN (2012) Institutions and Self-Governing Social Systems: Linking Reflexivity and Institutional Theories for Cybersecurity and Other Commons Governance Policies. Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University

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

MONICA KELLY; Monica Kelly lives in Larchmont (1988) Three Crows Cause a Neighbor to Take Flights of Fancy. New York Times 12WC32

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Sydnes 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Federman and Young 2009; Sydnes 2013).

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

Two authors: (Federman and Young 2009)
Three or more authors: (Kimura et al. 2005)

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