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

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

J.E. Sadler, Structural biology. A ménage à trois in two configurations, Science 301 (2003) 177–179.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

S. Stegemann, R. Bock, Exchange of genetic material between cells in plant tissue grafts, Science 324 (2009) 649–651.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

C. Vignal, N. Mathevon, S. Mottin, Audience drives male songbird response to partner’s voice, Nature 430 (2004) 448–451.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

H. Lee, J.-W. Lee, D.Y. Kim, J. Park, Y.-T. Seo, H. Zeng, I.L. Moudrakovski, C.I. Ratcliffe, J.A. Ripmeester, Tuning clathrate hydrates for hydrogen storage, Nature 434 (2005) 743–746.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

A.H. Barnett, J. Grice, New Mechanisms in Glucose Control, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ USA, 2011.

An edited book

[1]

T. Janowski, H. Mohanty, eds., Distributed Computing and Internet Technology: 4th International Conference, ICDCIT 2007, Bangalore, India, December 17-20. Proceedings, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2007.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

E. Tanrikulu, What Needs to Be Done for Successful E Assessment Implementations?, in: D. Passey, A. Breiter, A. Visscher (Eds.), Next Generation of Information Technology in Educational Management: 10th IFIP WG 3.7 Conference, ITEM 2012, Bremen, Germany, August 5-8, 2012, Revised Selected Papers, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2013: pp. 55–66.

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 Industry.

Blog post

[1]

K. Evans, New Zealand’s Yellow-Eyed Penguins Could Be Extinct In Just 25 years, 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, Applying Agreed-Upon Procedures: Airport and Airway Trust Fund Excise Taxes, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2004.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

M.E. Barta, Culture, customer-centricity, and customer relationship management in an online postsecondary learning institution, Doctoral dissertation, Capella University, 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]

L. Qiu, Misleading Statements From President’s Cabinet, New York Times (2017) A13.

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 Industry
Abbreviation	Water Resour. Ind.
ISSN (print)	2212-3717
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