How to format your references using the Aquaculture citation style

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

Weimerskirch, H., 2013. Ecology. Seabirds--individuals in colonies. Science 341, 35–36.

A journal article with 2 authors

Weaver, M., Krasnow, M.A., 2008. Dual origin of tissue-specific progenitor cells in Drosophila tracheal remodeling. Science 321, 1496–1499.

A journal article with 3 authors

Mishra, L., Derynck, R., Mishra, B., 2005. Transforming growth factor-beta signaling in stem cells and cancer. Science 310, 68–71.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Izawa, D., Goto, M., Yamashita, A., Yamano, H., Yamamoto, M., 2005. Fission yeast Mes1p ensures the onset of meiosis II by blocking degradation of cyclin Cdc13p. Nature 434, 529–533.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Mather, P.M., Koch, M., 2011. Computer Processing of Remotely-Sensed Images. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Beierle, C., Meghini, C. (Eds.), 2014. Foundations of Information and Knowledge Systems: 8th International Symposium, FoIKS 2014, Bordeaux, France, March 3-7, 2014. Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Biswas, A., Banerjee, B., Mandal, S., 2013. Optimal Sample Proportion for a Two-Treatment Clinical Trial in the Presence of Surrogate Endpoints, in: Ucinski, D., Atkinson, A.C., Patan, M. (Eds.), MODa 10 – Advances in Model-Oriented Design and Analysis: Proceedings of the 10th International Workshop in Model-Oriented Design and Analysis Held in Łagów Lubuski, Poland, June 10–14, 2013, Contributions to Statistics. Springer International Publishing, Heidelberg, pp. 27–34.

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.

Blog post

Fang, J., 2015. Ancient Hypercarnivores Reined In Mammoths And Other Megaherbivores [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/ancient-hypercarnivores-reined-mammoths-and-mastodons/ (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, 2013. Acquisition Workforce: DOT Lacks Data, Oversight, and Strategic Focus Needed to Address Significant Workforce Challenges (No. GAO-13-117). 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

Cinquemani, S., 2017. Fostering New Spaces: Challenging Dominant Constructions of Power and Knowledge in Early Childhood Art Education (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

Kelly, C., 2007. Old Graveyards Suffering The Ravages of Vandalism. New York Times WE15.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Weimerskirch, 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Weaver and Krasnow, 2008; Weimerskirch, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Weaver and Krasnow, 2008)
Three or more authors: (Izawa et al., 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	Aquaculture
Abbreviation	Aquaculture
ISSN (print)	0044-8486
Scope	Aquatic Science