How to format your references using the Water International citation style

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

Sax, D. (2010). Journal club. A conservation biologist considers the role of nature reserves in a warming world. Nature, 466(7307), 669.

A journal article with 2 authors

Schindler, D. E., & Hilborn, R. (2015). Sustainability. Prediction, precaution, and policy under global change. Science (New York, N.Y.), 347(6225), 953–954.

A journal article with 3 authors

Jimenez-Sanchez, G., Childs, B., & Valle, D. (2001). Human disease genes. Nature, 409(6822), 853–855.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Tapley, B. D., Bettadpur, S., Ries, J. C., Thompson, P. F., & Watkins, M. M. (2004). GRACE measurements of mass variability in the Earth system. Science (New York, N.Y.), 305(5683), 503–505.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Dinçer, İ., & Zamfirescu, C. (2015). Drying Phenomena. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Conrady, R., & Buck, M. (Eds.). (2009). Trends and Issues in Global Tourism 2009. Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Beliakov, G. (2010). Optimization and Aggregation Functions. In W. A. Lodwick & J. Kacprzyk (Eds.), Fuzzy Optimization: Recent Advances and Applications (pp. 77–108). Springer.

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 International.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2014, April 3). Sakurai’s Object Evolution Witnessed in Real Time. IFLScience; IFLScience.

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. (1991). Unmanned Aerial Vehicles: Medium Range System Components Do Not Fit (NSIAD-91-2). 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

Thompson, A. J. (2003). Textiles as Indicators of Hopewellian Culture Burial Practices [Doctoral dissertation]. Ohio State 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

Phillips-Sandy, M. (2016, February 6). Autocorrect and the Tao of Texting. New York Times, A23.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Sax, 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Sax, 2010; Schindler & Hilborn, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Schindler & Hilborn, 2015)
Three authors: (Jimenez-Sanchez et al., 2001)
6 or more authors: (Tapley et al., 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	Water International
Abbreviation	Water Int.
ISSN (print)	0250-8060
ISSN (online)	1941-1707
Scope	Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law Water Science and Technology