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

Konner M (2004) The ties that bind. Nature 429:705

A journal article with 2 authors

Gascon C, Smith ML (2004) Ecology. Where rivers meet. Science 305:1922–1923

A journal article with 3 authors

Müller K, Faeh C, Diederich F (2007) Fluorine in pharmaceuticals: looking beyond intuition. Science 317:1881–1886

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Petersen CCH, Brecht M, Hahn TTG, Sakmann B (2004) Synaptic changes in layer 2/3 underlying map plasticity of developing barrel cortex. Science 304:739–742

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Holt J (2013) The Ultimate Daily Show and Philosophy. John Wiley & Sons, Oxford

An edited book

Regine G (2012) Ecocontrastografia dell’apparato urinario. Springer, Milano

A chapter in an edited book

Nakata K, Sabelfeld A (2010) Securing Class Initialization. In: Nishigaki M, Jøsang A, Murayama Y, Marsh S (eds) Trust Management IV: 4th IFIP WG 11.11 International Conference, IFIPTM 2010, Morioka, Japan, June 16-18, 2010. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 48–62

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

Taub B (2016) Monkey Observed Grieving For Dying Mate After Heartbreaking Accident. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/monkey-observed-grieving-dying-mate-after-heartbreaking-accident/. 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 (1994) Surface Transportation: Tight Budget Environment Requires Sound Investment Strategy. 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

Bui L (2017) Mind Over Matter Telepsychiatry. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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

Leland J (2016) ‘I Don’t Look Back.’ New York Times MB1

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Konner 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Konner 2004; Gascon and Smith 2004).

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

Two authors: (Gascon and Smith 2004)
Three or more authors: (Petersen et al. 2004)

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