How to format your references using the Water Resources and Economics citation style

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

[1]

C. Reis e Sousa, Immunology. Eating in to avoid infection, Science. 315 (2007) 1376–1377.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

A. Buckling, P.B. Rainey, The role of parasites in sympatric and allopatric host diversification, Nature. 420 (2002) 496–499.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

M.N. Gadalla, M. Abdel-Rahman, A. Shamim, Design, optimization and fabrication of a 28.3 THz nano-rectenna for infrared detection and rectification, Sci. Rep. 4 (2014) 4270.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

H. Ogawa, K.-I. Ishiguro, S. Gaubatz, D.M. Livingston, Y. Nakatani, A complex with chromatin modifiers that occupies E2F- and Myc-responsive genes in G0 cells, Science. 296 (2002) 1132–1136.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

N.W. Galwey, Introduction to Mixed Modelling, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2014.

An edited book

[1]

X. Jiang, M. Ferrer, A. Torsello, eds., Graph-Based Representations in Pattern Recognition: 8th IAPR-TC-15 International Workshop, GbRPR 2011, Münster, Germany, May 18-20, 2011. Proceedings, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

A. Shtukenberg, Y.O. Punin, Superimposition of Optical Anomalies, in: Y.O. Punin, B. Kahr (Eds.), Optically Anomalous Crystals, Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 2007: pp. 201–210.

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 Resources and Economics.

Blog post

[1]

J. Fang, DNA Hard Drive Could Store Data For Millions Of Years, IFLScience. (2015). https://www.iflscience.com/technology/could-fossil-inspired-dna-hard-drive-store-data-forever/ (accessed October 30, 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

[1]

Government Accountability Office, FAA’s Voice Communications and Administrative Computer Systems, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1989.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

S. Moreno, Mother-child relationships: Females behind bars and their children, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 2009.

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

[1]

S.M. Novick, Satisfying the Sweet (and Savory) Tooth, New York Times. (2016) LI8.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Water Resources and Economics
Abbreviation	Water Resour. Econ.
ISSN (print)	2212-4284
Scope