How to format your references using the Water SA citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Water SA. 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	Download the output style file
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

ROBEL A (2015) Climate science: The long future of Antarctic melting. Nature 526 (7573) 327–328.

A journal article with 2 authors

LEE DH and GUPTA JA (2010) Tunable field control over the binding energy of single dopants by a charged vacancy in GaAs. Science (New York, N.Y.) 330 (6012) 1807–1810.

A journal article with 3 authors

EREMTCHENKO M, SCHAEFER JA and TAUTZ FS (2003) Understanding and tuning the epitaxy of large aromatic adsorbates by molecular design. Nature 425 (6958) 602–605.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

WAGNER K, JANOUSEK J, DELAUBERT V, ZOU H, HARB C, TREPS N, MORIZUR JF, LAM PK and BACHOR HA (2008) Entangling the spatial properties of laser beams. Science (New York, N.Y.) 321 (5888) 541–543.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

JOYCE PM and LIPTON D (2013) Lamentations Through the Centuries. Blackwell Publishing Ltd, Oxford.

An edited book

TORRES DF and REA N (eds.) (2011) High-Energy Emission from Pulsars and their Systems: Proceedings of the First Session of the Sant Cugat Forum on Astrophysics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. XXXVI, 644 p p.

A chapter in an edited book

NETS-ZEHNGUT R (2016) The Israeli Collective Memory of the Israeli-Arab/Palestinian Conflict: Its Characteristics and Relation to the Conflict. In: SHARVIT K and HALPERIN E (eds.) A Social Psychology Perspective on The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Celebrating the Legacy of Daniel Bar-Tal, Vol II. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

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 SA.

Blog post

ANDREW E (2015) Art And Science Combine To Reveal The Inner Workings Of Our DNA. IFLScience. URL: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/art-and-science-combine-reveal-inner-workings-our-dna/ (Accessed 30 October 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 (2013) Satellite Control: Long-Term Planning and Adoption of Commercial Practices Could Improve DOD’s Operations. GAO-13-315. 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

EYERS BM (2011) An Analysis of Remote Biometric Authentication with Windows. Doctoral dissertation, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL.

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

CROW K (2002) Reminiscing About a Woman With Quirks as Well as Causes. New York Times 146.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Robel, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Robel, 2015; Lee and Gupta, 2010).

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

Two authors: (Lee and Gupta, 2010)
Three or more authors: (Wagner et al., 2008)

About the journal

Full journal title	Water SA
Abbreviation	Water S. A.
ISSN (print)	0378-4738
ISSN (online)	1816-7950
Scope	Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law Waste Management and Disposal Water Science and Technology Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology