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

Chamberlin RV (2000) Mean-field cluster model for the critical behaviour of ferromagnets. Nature 408:337–339

A journal article with 2 authors

Fenistein D, Van Hecke M (2003) Kinematics: wide shear zones in granular bulk flow. Nature 425:256

A journal article with 3 authors

Chen JM, Smith J, Wolfe J (2008) Experienced saxophonists learn to tune their vocal tracts. Science 319:776

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Hackermüller L, Hornberger K, Brezger B, et al (2004) Decoherence of matter waves by thermal emission of radiation. Nature 427:711–714

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Barnett JE, Johnson WB (2015) Ethics Desk Reference for Counselors. American Counseling Association, Alexandria, VA, USA

An edited book

Bhalla S (ed) (2007) Databases in Networked Information Systems: 5th International Workshop, DNIS 2007, Aizu-Wakamatsu, Japan, October 17-19, 2007. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Vadicherla T, Saravanan D (2014) Textiles and Apparel Development Using Recycled and Reclaimed Fibers. In: Muthu SS (ed) Roadmap to Sustainable Textiles and Clothing: Eco-friendly Raw Materials, Technologies, and Processing Methods. Springer, Singapore, pp 139–160

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

Carpineti A (2017) Comets’ Water Signature Might Change As They Orbit The Sun. 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 (1987) ADP Systems: Concerns About DOD’s Composite Health Care System Development Contracts. 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

Ellerbrook SL (2009) Exploring the efficiency and effectiveness of teacher selection tools: The effects on the total group with a focus on the gender sub-groups. 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

Pilon M (2013) Anger and Indifference After a School Ends a Full-Contact Tradition. New York Times D2

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Chamberlin 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Chamberlin 2000; Fenistein and Van Hecke 2003).

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

Two authors: (Fenistein and Van Hecke 2003)
Three or more authors: (Hackermüller 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