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

Schmollinger, J., 2002. Equal opportunities. Nature 417, 5.

A journal article with 2 authors

Conte, M.H., Weber, J.C., 2002. Plant biomarkers in aerosols record isotopic discrimination of terrestrial photosynthesis. Nature 417, 639–641.

A journal article with 3 authors

Nesvorný, D., Vokrouhlický, D., Bottke, W.F., 2006. The breakup of a main-belt asteroid 450 thousand years ago. Science 312, 1490.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Coop, G., Wen, X., Ober, C., Pritchard, J.K., Przeworski, M., 2008. High-resolution mapping of crossovers reveals extensive variation in fine-scale recombination patterns among humans. Science 319, 1395–1398.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Fischer, D.J., Treister, N.S., Pinto, A., 2013. Risk Assessment and Oral Diagnostics in Clinical Dentistry. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., West Sussex, UK.

An edited book

Suit, H.D., 2011. Evolution of Radiation Oncology at Massachusetts General Hospital. Springer US, Boston, MA.

A chapter in an edited book

Quilici, S., Atiama-Nurbel, T., Brévault, T., 2014. Plant Odors as Fruit Fly Attractants, in: Shelly, T., Epsky, N., Jang, E.B., Reyes-Flores, J., Vargas, R. (Eds.), Trapping and the Detection, Control, and Regulation of Tephritid Fruit Flies: Lures, Area-Wide Programs, and Trade Implications. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp. 119–144.

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

Andrew, E., 2015. Scientists Get Ready For The Latest Gravitational Wave Search [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/physics/search-gravitational-waves/ (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, 1977. Study of Guaranteed Student Loan Bankruptcy (No. HRD-77-80). 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

Al khuwaildi, H.A., 2010. Green techniques in the healthcare system (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, 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

Rothenberg, B., 2016. Mastering the Strings Without Hearing a Sound. New York Times D1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Schmollinger, 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Conte and Weber, 2002; Schmollinger, 2002).

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

Two authors: (Conte and Weber, 2002)
Three or more authors: (Coop et al., 2008)

About the journal

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