How to format your references using the Aquacultural Engineering citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Aquacultural Engineering. 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

Basko, D., 2011. Applied physics. A photothermoelectric effect in graphene. Science 334, 610–611.

A journal article with 2 authors

Jackson, S.T., Hobbs, R.J., 2009. Ecological restoration in the light of ecological history. Science 325, 567–569.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bo, T.-L., Zhang, H., Zheng, X.-J., 2014. Charge-to-mass ratio of saltating particles in wind-blown sand. Sci. Rep. 4, 5590.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Engler, A.J., Humbert, P.O., Wehrle-Haller, B., Weaver, V.M., 2009. Multiscale modeling of form and function. Science 324, 208–212.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Baker, H.K., English, P., 2011. Capital Budgeting Valuation. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Boyadjiev, C., 2016. Modeling of Column Apparatus Processes, 1st ed. 2016. ed, Heat and Mass Transfer. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Roberts, P., 2012. More Than A Metaphor, in: Roberts, P. (Ed.), From West to East and Back Again: An Educational Reading of Hermann Hesse’s Later Work. SensePublishers, Rotterdam, pp. 41–54.

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 Aquacultural Engineering.

Blog post

Hamilton, K., 2015. Check Out This Blue Sea Slug Eating A Blue Button Jelly [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/check-out-blue-sea-slug-eating-blue-button-jelly/ (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 2010. Aviation Security: TSA Has Made Progress but Faces Challenges in Meeting the Statutory Mandate for Screening Air Cargo on Passenger Aircraft (No. GAO-10-446). 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

Barajas, D., 2010. The marginalization of Zitkala-Ša and Wendy Rose (Doctoral dissertation). University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ.

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., 2014. Wust Reclaims Gold in 3,000. New York Times D9.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Basko, 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Basko, 2011; Jackson and Hobbs, 2009).

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

Two authors: (Jackson and Hobbs, 2009)
Three or more authors: (Engler et al., 2009)

About the journal

Full journal title	Aquacultural Engineering
Abbreviation	Aquacult. Eng.
ISSN (print)	0144-8609
Scope	Aquatic Science