How to format your references using the Aquaculture and Fisheries citation style

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

Tomioka, K. (2015). Condensed-matter Physics: Flat transistor defies the limit. Nature, 526(7571), 51–52.

A journal article with 2 authors

Shuster, D. L., & Weiss, B. P. (2005). Martian surface paleotemperatures from thermochronology of meteorites. Science (New York, N.Y.), 309(5734), 594–600.

A journal article with 3 authors

Herr, A. B., Ballister, E. R., & Bjorkman, P. J. (2003). Insights into IgA-mediated immune responses from the crystal structures of human FcalphaRI and its complex with IgA1-Fc. Nature, 423(6940), 614–620.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Liu, Z. R., Zhang, H., Wu, J. Q., Zhou, J. J., & Ji, Y. H. (2014). PKA phosphorylation reshapes the pharmacological kinetics of BmK AS, a unique site-4 sodium channel-specific modulator. Scientific Reports, 4, 3721.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bragg, S. M. (2009). Controllership. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Hermann, M., & Voronkov, A. (Eds.). (2006). Logic for Programming, Artificial Intelligence, and Reasoning: 13th International Conference, LPAR 2006, Phnom Penh, Cambodia, November 13-17, 2006. Proceedings (Vol. 4246). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Roussak, O. V., & Gesser, H. D. (2013). Liquid Fuels. In H. D. Gesser (Ed.), Applied Chemistry: A Textbook for Engineers and Technologists (pp. 57–70). Springer US.

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 Aquaculture and Fisheries.

Blog post

Hale, T. (2015, October 26). Hiker Stumbles Across Ancient Viking Sword. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/hiker-finds-1200-year-old-viking-sword-norway/

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. (1991). Transition From School to Work: Linking Education and Worksite Training (HRD-91-105). U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Witt, S. R. (2017). A Study of the Relationship of Online Course Factors and Passing or Failing an Online Course [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

Johnson, G. (2015, June 23). Our Existentially Lucky Numbers. New York Times, D5.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Tomioka, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Shuster & Weiss, 2005; Tomioka, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Shuster & Weiss, 2005)
Three authors: (Herr et al., 2003)
6 or more authors: (Liu et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Aquaculture and Fisheries
ISSN (print)	2468-550X
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