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

Sachs, J. D. (2004). Seeking a global solution. Nature, 430(7001), 725–726.

A journal article with 2 authors

Eccleston, A., & Skipper, M. (2009). Transcribing the genome. Nature, 461(7261), 185.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kinney, M. A., Saeed, R., & McDevitt, T. C. (2014). Mesenchymal morphogenesis of embryonic stem cells dynamically modulates the biophysical microtissue niche. Scientific Reports, 4, 4290.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Jarillo, J. A., Gabrys, H., Capel, J., Alonso, J. M., Ecker, J. R., & Cashmore, A. R. (2001). Phototropin-related NPL1 controls chloroplast relocation induced by blue light. Nature, 410(6831), 952–954.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Pérez Fontán, F., & Mariño Espiñeira, P. (2008). Modeling the Wireless Propagation Channel. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Hayat, M. A. (Ed.). (2012). Pediatric Cancer, Volume 3: Diagnosis, Therapy, and Prognosis (Vol. 3). Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Razeghi, M., Lu, Q., Bandyopadhyay, N., Slivken, S., & Bai, Y. (2014). High Power, Narrow-Linewidth, and Compact Terahertz Sources for Room Temperature Applications. In C. Corsi & F. Sizov (Eds.), THz and Security Applications: Detectors, Sources and Associated Electronics for THz Applications (pp. 75–89). Springer Netherlands.

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

Andrews, R. (2016, July 6). This Algorithm Is Better Than You At Picking Out A Lie Online. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/algorithm-better-picking-out-lie-online/

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. (1990). Telecommunications: Follow-Up National Survey of Cable Television Rates and Services (RCED-90-199). 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

Simsic, G. (2012). Revisiting Addiction Using Depth Psychology: The Myth of Exodus as a Blueprint for Recovery [Doctoral dissertation]. Pacifica Graduate Institute.

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

Hollander, S. (2000, August 16). Player’s Dream Takes a Detour in the Bronx. New York Times, D8.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Sachs, 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Eccleston & Skipper, 2009; Sachs, 2004).

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

Two authors: (Eccleston & Skipper, 2009)
Three or more authors: (Jarillo et al., 2001)

About the journal

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