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.H. Bucksbaum, Chemistry. The first femtosecond in the life of a chemical reaction, Science. 312 (2006) 373–374.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

X. Wang, X.J. Chen, A cytosolic network suppressing mitochondria-mediated proteostatic stress and cell death, Nature. 524 (2015) 481–484.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

R.T. Dame, M.C. Noom, G.J.L. Wuite, Bacterial chromatin organization by H-NS protein unravelled using dual DNA manipulation, Nature. 444 (2006) 387–390.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

N. Navin, J. Kendall, J. Troge, P. Andrews, L. Rodgers, J. McIndoo, K. Cook, A. Stepansky, D. Levy, D. Esposito, L. Muthuswamy, A. Krasnitz, W.R. McCombie, J. Hicks, M. Wigler, Tumour evolution inferred by single-cell sequencing, Nature. 472 (2011) 90–94.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

American Institute of Timber Constr, Timber Construction Manual, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2012.

An edited book

[1]

J.-H. Hoepman, S. Katzenbeisser, eds., ICT Systems Security and Privacy Protection: 31st IFIP TC 11 International Conference, SEC 2016, Ghent, Belgium, May 30 - June 1, 2016, Proceedings, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

L. Hannachi, O. Asfari, N. Benblidia, F. Bentayeb, N. Kabachi, O. Boussaid, Community Extraction Based on Topic-Driven-Model for Clustering Users Tweets, in: S. Zhou, S. Zhang, G. Karypis (Eds.), Advanced Data Mining and Applications: 8th International Conference, ADMA 2012, Nanjing, China, December 15-18, 2012. Proceedings, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2012: pp. 39–51.

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]

T. Hale, This Is What Would Happen If A Colossal Asteroid Hit The Sea, IFLScience. (2016). https://www.iflscience.com/space/this-is-what-would-happen-if-a-colossal-asteroid-hit-the-sea/ (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, Transportation Security: Federal Action Needed to Enhance Security Efforts, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2003.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

K.I. Echols, Authentic Leadership, Research Integrity, and Institutions of Higher Learning: Why Focusing on Departmental Leadership is Critical for Preserving the Sanctity of Science, Doctoral dissertation, Mississippi State University, 2017.

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]

L.F. Burghardt, An Animal Sanctuary Is Under Pressure to Move, New York Times. (2006) LI10.

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

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