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]

P. Nurse, Life, logic and information, Nature. 454 (2008) 424–426.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

T.J. Florence, M.B. Reiser, Neuroscience: hot on the trail of temperature processing, Nature. 519 (2015) 296–297.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

J.A. Harvey, L.S. Corley, M.R. Strand, Competition induces adaptive shifts in caste ratios of a polyembryonic wasp, Nature. 406 (2000) 183–186.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

A. Tabazadeh, E.J. Jensen, O.B. Toon, K. Drdla, M.R. Schoeberl, Role of the stratospheric polar freezing belt in denitrification, Science. 291 (2001) 2591–2594.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

E.R. Lebowitz, H. Omer, Treating Childhood and Adolescent Anxiety, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2013.

An edited book

[1]

B. Robyns, Vector Control of Induction Machines: Desensitisation and Optimisation Through Fuzzy Logic, Springer, London, 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Z. Kuś, A. Nawrat, Object Tracking in a Picture during Rapid Camera Movements, in: A. Nawrat, Z. Kuś (Eds.), Vision Based Systemsfor UAV Applications, Springer International Publishing, Heidelberg, 2013: pp. 77–91.

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]

E. Andrew, Invisibility Cloak Thinner Than Ever Before, 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, Space Shuttle: Issues Associated With the Vandenberg Launch Site, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1986.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

L.A. Shore, The anima in animation: Miyazaki heroines and post-patriarchal consciousness, Doctoral dissertation, Pacifica Graduate Institute, 2014.

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. Parker, The Joys of Binge-Watching, New York Times. (2016) BR10.

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
Scope