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

Dalton, R., 2003. Legal row looms for gene-map firm. Nature 423, 470.

A journal article with 2 authors

Oh, M., Mirkin, C.A., 2005. Chemically tailorable colloidal particles from infinite coordination polymers. Nature 438, 651–654.

A journal article with 3 authors

Fuerstman, M.J., Garstecki, P., Whitesides, G.M., 2007. Coding/decoding and reversibility of droplet trains in microfluidic networks. Science 315, 828–832.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Cao, D., Yang, L., Liu, L., Yuan, H., Qian, S., Lv, X., Han, P., Wei, Q., 2014. A comparison of nifedipine and tamsulosin as medical expulsive therapy for the management of lower ureteral stones without ESWL. Sci. Rep. 4, 5254.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Venkateshan, S.P., 2015. Mechanical Measurements. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Gao, Z.-K., 2014. Nonlinear Analysis of Gas-Water/Oil-Water Two-Phase Flow in Complex Networks, SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Hess, S., Bierlaire, M., Polak, J.W., 2005. Capturing Correlation and Taste Heterogeneity with Mixed GEV Models, in: Scarpa, R., Alberini, A. (Eds.), Applications of Simulation Methods in Environmental and Resource Economics, The Economics of Non-Market Goods and Resources. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp. 55–75.

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

Fang, J., 2016. Snails Can’t Escape Carnivorous Sea Stars In Our Acidifying Oceans [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/snails-cant-escape/ (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, 1991. Naval Safety School Relocation: More Credible Cost Analysis Is Needed (No. NSIAD-91-145). 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

Theisen, T.D., 2008. Improving the collaboration infrastructure of an online inter -institutional consortium (Doctoral dissertation). Capella University, Minneapolis, MN.

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

Wagner, J., 2017. Leg Injury May End Season for Cespedes. New York Times D5.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Dalton, 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Dalton, 2003; Oh and Mirkin, 2005).

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

Two authors: (Oh and Mirkin, 2005)
Three or more authors: (Cao et al., 2014)

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