How to format your references using the Water Resources Management citation style

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

Wells TNC (2010) Microbiology. Is the tide turning for new malaria medicines? Science 329:1153–1154

A journal article with 2 authors

Maloy KJ, Powrie F (2011) Intestinal homeostasis and its breakdown in inflammatory bowel disease. Nature 474:298–306

A journal article with 3 authors

Hayward RC, Saville DA, Aksay IA (2000) Electrophoretic assembly of colloidal crystals with optically tunable micropatterns. Nature 404:56–59

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Shimura H, Schlossmacher MG, Hattori N, et al (2001) Ubiquitination of a new form of alpha-synuclein by parkin from human brain: implications for Parkinson’s disease. Science 293:263–269

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Promislow SD (2010) Fundamentals of Actuarial Mathematics. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Atallah MJ, Hopper NJ (eds) (2010) Privacy Enhancing Technologies: 10th International Symposium, PETS 2010, Berlin, Germany, July 21-23, 2010. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Strauss B, Brenk-Franz K (2016) The Relevance of Attachment Theory in Medical Care. In: Hunter J, Maunder R (eds) Improving Patient Treatment with Attachment Theory: A Guide for Primary Care Practitioners and Specialists. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 39–52

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 Management.

Blog post

Davis J (2016) Legal Hunting Of Wolves May Actually Increase Poaching. In: IFLScience. Accessed 30 Oct 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

Government Accountability Office (2001) Information Technology: Leading Commercial Practices for Outsourcing of Services. 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

Gauen KE (2009) The impact of the Instructional Practices Inventory at an Illinois middle school. Doctoral dissertation, Lindenwood University

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

Chapman MM, Saulny S (2010) A Tragedy in Detroit, With a Reality TV Crew in Tow. New York Times A8

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Wells 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Wells 2010; Maloy and Powrie 2011).

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

Two authors: (Maloy and Powrie 2011)
Three or more authors: (Shimura et al. 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	Water Resources Management
Abbreviation	Water Resour. Manage.
ISSN (print)	0920-4741
ISSN (online)	1573-1650
Scope	Civil and Structural Engineering Water Science and Technology