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

Nowak MA (2008) Generosity: A winner’s advice. Nature 456:579

A journal article with 2 authors

Johnston RJ, Hobert O (2003) A microRNA controlling left/right neuronal asymmetry in Caenorhabditis elegans. Nature 426:845–849

A journal article with 3 authors

Sugase K, Dyson HJ, Wright PE (2007) Mechanism of coupled folding and binding of an intrinsically disordered protein. Nature 447:1021–1025

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Trauger JW, Kohli RM, Mootz HD, et al (2000) Peptide cyclization catalysed by the thioesterase domain of tyrocidine synthetase. Nature 407:215–218

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kaisler SH (2005) Software Paradigms. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Rau PLP (ed) (2013) Cross-Cultural Design. Cultural Differences in Everyday Life: 5th International Conference, CCD 2013, Held as Part of HCI International 2013, Las Vegas, NV, USA, July 21-26, 2013, Proceedings, Part II. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Baker BJ, Amsler CD, McClintock JB (2008) Macroalgal Chemical Defenses in Polar Marine Communities. In: Amsler CD (ed) Algal Chemical Ecology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 91–103

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

O`Callaghan J (2017) Is Mars Already Forming A Ring System? In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/is-mars-already-forming-a-ring-system/. 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 (1999) Surface Infrastructure: High-Speed Rail Projects in the United States. 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

Ghale K (2015) Modeling the Traffic Impacts During Evacuation of a Suburban University Campus: A Case Study. Doctoral dissertation, Southern Illinois 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

Kolomatsky M (2017) Mom and Pop Own Fewer Rentals. New York Times RE2

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Nowak 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Johnston and Hobert 2003; Nowak 2008).

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

Two authors: (Johnston and Hobert 2003)
Three or more authors: (Trauger 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

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