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]

P. Ball, Let’s catch some rays, Nature 419 (2002) 12–14.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

A. Eccleston, M. Skipper, Transcribing the genome, Nature 461 (2009) 185.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

F.U. Hartl, A. Bracher, M. Hayer-Hartl, Molecular chaperones in protein folding and proteostasis, Nature 475 (2011) 324–332.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

J.-P. Boon, J. Casti, C. Djerassi, J. Johnson, A. Lovett, T. Norretranders, V. Patera, C. Sommerer, R. Taylor, S. Thurner, A concrete example, Nature 444 (2006) 122.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

E.L. Wolf, M. Medikonda, Understanding the Nanotechnology Revolution, Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany, 2012.

An edited book

[1]

L. Larsson, F. Stern, M. Visonneau, eds., Numerical Ship Hydrodynamics: An assessment of the Gothenburg 2010 Workshop, Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

E. Simons, Sir Wilfrid Le Gros Clark, in: J.G. Fleagle, C.C. Gilbert (Eds.), Elwyn Simons: A Search for Origins, Springer, New York, NY, 2008: pp. 35–40.

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]

E. Andrew, So You Think You Have IBS, Coeliac Disease Or Crohn’s? Here’s What It Might Mean For You, IFLScience (2015).

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, Personnel Security: Pass and Security Clearance Data for the Executive Office of the President, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1995.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

D.M. Garcia, Cutting a thorn: The cleansing function of female genital cutting, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 2010.

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]

J. Hodgman, Bonus Advice From Judge John Hodgman, New York Times (2017) MM28.

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