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

Collier, R. J. (2010). Microbiology. Salmonella’s safety catch. Science (New York, N.Y.), 328(5981), 981–982.

A journal article with 2 authors

Zimmerman, J. B., & Anastas, P. T. (2015). Chemistry. Toward substitution with no regrets. Science (New York, N.Y.), 347(6227), 1198–1199.

A journal article with 3 authors

Schott, D., Yanai, I., & Hunter, C. P. (2014). Natural RNA interference directs a heritable response to the environment. Scientific Reports, 4, 7387.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Katano, Y., Nakano, K., Otsuki, M., & Matsukawa, H. (2014). Novel friction law for the static friction force based on local precursor slipping. Scientific Reports, 4, 6324.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

O’Kelly, M., & Ratitch, B. (2014). Clinical Trials with Missing Data. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Kwon, W. H. (2005). Receding Horizon Control: Model Predictive Control for State Models (S. Han, Ed.). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Ivanova, E. P., Kurilenko, A., Wang, F., & Crawford, R. J. (2010). Comparative Genomics of Pathogens. In V. Sintchenko (Ed.), Infectious Disease Informatics (pp. 73–91). Springer.

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

Andrew, E. (2015, May 13). Scientists Discover Antimatter In Storms On Earth. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/physics/scientists-discover-tempestuous-antimatter-storm-earth/

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. (2008). Air Traffic Control: FAA Uses Earned Value Techniques to Help Manage Information Technology Acquisitions, but Needs to Clarify Policy and Strengthen Oversight (GAO-08-756). 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

Leonard, J. M. (2001). The Effect of Manufacturing Establishments on Local Area per Capita Personal Income in the U.S. 1967-1990 [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Cincinnati.

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

Landler, M., & Alcindor, Y. (2017, October 18). Condolence Call to Widow Ignites Trump Imbroglio. New York Times, A1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Collier, 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Collier, 2010; Zimmerman & Anastas, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Zimmerman & Anastas, 2015)
Three authors: (Schott et al., 2014)
6 or more authors: (Katano et al., 2014)

About the journal

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