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

Scully, T. (2012). Demography: To the limit. Nature, 492(7427), S2-3.

A journal article with 2 authors

Altshuler, D. L., & Clark, C. J. (2003). Ecology and evolution. Darwin’s hummingbirds. Science (New York, N.Y.), 300(5619), 588–589.

A journal article with 3 authors

Gore, J., Youk, H., & van Oudenaarden, A. (2009). Snowdrift game dynamics and facultative cheating in yeast. Nature, 459(7244), 253–256.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Song, K., Kim, K., Hur, S., Kwak, J.-H., Park, J., Yoon, J. R., & Kim, J. (2014). Sound pressure level gain in an acoustic metamaterial cavity. Scientific Reports, 4, 7421.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Jones, D. W. (2014). Economic Theory and the Ancient Mediterranean. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Gonzalez-Diaz, R., Jimenez, M.-J., & Medrano, B. (Eds.). (2013). Discrete Geometry for Computer Imagery: 17th IAPR International Conference, DGCI 2013, Seville, Spain, March 20-22, 2013. Proceedings (Vol. 7749). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

GIZ GmbH. (2015). Success Factor – Strategy. In G. GmbH (Ed.), Cooperation Management for Practitioners: Managing Social Change with Capacity WORKS (pp. 42–51). Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden.

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, D. (2017, February 24). Five Ways Nanoscience Is Making Science Fiction Into Fact. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/five-ways-nanoscience-is-making-science-fiction-into-fact/

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. (2010). University Research: Policies for the Reimbursement of Indirect Costs Need to Be Updated (GAO-10-937). 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

Moton, J. M. (2012). Investigation of low temperature solid oxide fuel cells for air-independent UUV applications [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Maryland, College Park.

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

Choi, M. H. K. (2013, June 27). Terror in the Streets. New York Times, MM50.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Scully, 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Altshuler & Clark, 2003; Scully, 2012).

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

Two authors: (Altshuler & Clark, 2003)
Three or more authors: (Song et al., 2014)

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