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

Friedman, W.E., 2013. Plant science. One genome, two ontogenies. Science 339, 1045–1046.

A journal article with 2 authors

Koeller, K.M., Wong, C.H., 2001. Enzymes for chemical synthesis. Nature 409, 232–240.

A journal article with 3 authors

Moeller, S., Freiwald, W.A., Tsao, D.Y., 2008. Patches with links: a unified system for processing faces in the macaque temporal lobe. Science 320, 1355–1359.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Tzima, E., Irani-Tehrani, M., Kiosses, W.B., Dejana, E., Schultz, D.A., Engelhardt, B., Cao, G., DeLisser, H., Schwartz, M.A., 2005. A mechanosensory complex that mediates the endothelial cell response to fluid shear stress. Nature 437, 426–431.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Flood, B.G., 2013. Wealth Exposed. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Benson, C., 2013. Language Issues in Comparative Education: Inclusive Teaching and Learning in Non-Dominant Languages and Cultures, Comparative and International Education, A Diversity of Voices. SensePublishers, Rotterdam.

A chapter in an edited book

Martinho, V.J.P.D., 2015. The Performance of Manufacturing in the European Union in the Context of Agricultural Economics, in: Martinho, V.J.P.D. (Ed.), The Agricultural Economics of the 21st Century. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 35–48.

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

Andrew, E., 2014. Plastic Bags Efficiently Recycled Into Diesel Fuel [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/chemistry/plastic-bags-efficiently-recycled-diesel-fuel/ (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, 1978. Reuse of Municipal Wastewater and Development of New Technology: Emphasis and Direction Needed (No. CED-78-177). 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

Warren, S.M., 2015. The leadership process: An analysis of follower influence on leader behavior in hospital organizations (Doctoral dissertation). Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA.

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

Meyer, J.A., Meyer, L.R., 2007. Abolish Parole. New York Times 14CT15.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Friedman, 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Friedman, 2013; Koeller and Wong, 2001).

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

Two authors: (Koeller and Wong, 2001)
Three or more authors: (Tzima et al., 2005)

About the journal

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