How to format your references using the Water resources and rural development citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Water resources and rural development. 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

Weeds, A., 2013. Hugh Huxley (1924-2013). Nature 500, 530.

A journal article with 2 authors

Eisenstein, J.P., Macdonald, A.H., 2004. Bose-Einstein condensation of excitons in bilayer electron systems. Nature 432, 691–694.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kim, M., Carman, C.V., Springer, T.A., 2003. Bidirectional transmembrane signaling by cytoplasmic domain separation in integrins. Science 301, 1720–1725.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Aach, J., Bulyk, M.L., Church, G.M., Comander, J., Derti, A., Shendure, J., 2001. Computational comparison of two draft sequences of the human genome. Nature 409, 856–859.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Wolf, R.A., 2012. Atmospheric Pressure Plasma for Surface Modification. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Abtew, W., 2013. Evaporation and Evapotranspiration: Measurements and Estimations. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht.

A chapter in an edited book

Biasin, M., 2016. The German Cooperative Banks. An Economic Overview, in: Karafolas, S. (Ed.), Credit Cooperative Institutions in European Countries, Contributions to Economics. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 83–110.

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 rural development.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2015. Anti-Science Senator Will Oversee Committee Covering NASA and Science Funding [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL (accessed 10.30.18).

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

Government Accountability Office, 2016. China: U.S. Universities in China Emphasize Academic Freedom but Face Internet Censorship and Other Challenges (No. GAO-16-757). U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Matos, G., 2013. Re-fashioning goddesses: Exploring women’s archetypal fashion in the classroom (Doctoral dissertation). Pacifica Graduate Institute, Carpinteria, CA.

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

Gordon, M.R., 2017. On the Mosul Front, a Block-by-Block Fight Against ISIS and Time. New York Times A10.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Weeds, 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Eisenstein and Macdonald, 2004; Weeds, 2013).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Eisenstein and Macdonald, 2004)
Three or more authors: (Aach et al., 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	Water resources and rural development
Abbreviation	Water Resour. Rural Dev.
ISSN (print)	2212-6082
Scope	Water Science and Technology Development Geography, Planning and Development