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

Greene M (2001) A tool, not a tyrant. Nature 410:875

A journal article with 2 authors

Wilson RI, Nicoll RA (2001) Endogenous cannabinoids mediate retrograde signalling at hippocampal synapses. Nature 410:588–592

A journal article with 3 authors

Ivany LC, Patterson WP, Lohmann KC (2000) Cooler winters as a possible cause of mass extinctions at the Eocene/Oligocene boundary. Nature 407:887–890

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Prosperi M, Veras N, Azarian T, et al (2013) Molecular epidemiology of community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in the genomic era: a cross-sectional study. Sci Rep 3:1902

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Joseph CL, Bernal S (2016) Modern Devices. John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Yada K (ed) (2014) Data Mining for Service. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Smith L (2016) Evidence-Oriented Practice. In: Smith L (ed) Clinical Practice at the Edge of Care: Developments in Working with At-Risk Children and their Families. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 49–78

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

Luntz S (2014) Researchers Use Robo-Chicks To Study Penguins. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/penguin-rover-has-happy-wheels/. 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 (2003) Data Mining: Results and Challenges for Government Program Audits and Investigations. 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

Tomko PR (2012) Understanding the factors affecting the influence of children on their parents’ total purchases. Doctoral dissertation, Capella 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

Saslow L (2007) Village Wants Restaurant Wastewater Degreased. New York Times 14LI2

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Greene 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Wilson and Nicoll 2001; Greene 2001).

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

Two authors: (Wilson and Nicoll 2001)
Three or more authors: (Prosperi et al. 2013)

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