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]

S. Yamanaka, Genome-sequencing anniversary. Of mice and humans, Science 331 (2011) 873.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

M. Matzke, A.J.M. Matzke, RNAi extends its reach, Science 301 (2003) 1060–1061.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

S. Noda, A. Chutinan, M. Imada, Trapping and emission of photons by a single defect in a photonic bandgap structure, Nature 407 (2000) 608–610.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

V.P. LaBella, D.W. Bullock, Z. Ding, C. Emery, A. Venkatesan, W.F. Oliver, G.J. Salamo, P.M. Thibado, M. Mortazavi, Spatially resolved spin-injection probability for gallium arsenide, Science 292 (2001) 1518–1521.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

B. Leuf, The Semantic Web, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2006.

An edited book

[1]

J.I. Bekkevold, G. Till, eds., International Order at Sea: How it is challenged. How it is maintained, Palgrave Macmillan UK, London, 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

M.F. Mescher, J.M. Curtsinger, M. Jenkins, Adjuvants and the Initiation of T-Cell Responses, in: C.J. Hackett, D.A. Harn (Eds.), Vaccine Adjuvants: Immunological and Clinical Principles, Humana Press, Totowa, NJ, 2006: pp. 49–67.

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]

K. Hamilton, Wary Of Human-Animal Hybrids? It’s Probably Just Your Own Moral Superiority, IFLScience (2017).

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, Laboratory Research: Sales and Use Tax Costs to Build DOE’s Spallation Neutron Source Project, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1999.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

A.L. Conill, Dosimetric consequences of the parotid glands using CT-to-CBCT deformable registration during IMRT for late stage head and neck cancers, Doctoral dissertation, Florida Atlantic University, 2015.

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. Faludi, How Hillary Clinton Met Satan, New York Times (2016) SR5.

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
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