How to format your references using the Aquaculture Environment Interactions citation style

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

Collins H (2009) We cannot live by scepticism alone. Nature 458:30.

A journal article with 2 authors

Charron S, Koechlin E (2010) Divided representation of concurrent goals in the human frontal lobes. Science 328:360–363.

A journal article with 3 authors

Chen J, Weidner DJ, Vaughan MT (2002) The strength of Mg(0.9)Fe(0.1)SiO3 perovskite at high pressure and temperature. Nature 419:824–826.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Jiang L, Li JK, Cheng PM, Liu G, Wang RH, Chen BA, Zhang JY, Sun J, Yang MX, Yang G (2014) Microalloying ultrafine grained Al alloys with enhanced ductility. Sci Rep 4:3605.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Eggleston B (2008) The ICE Conditions of Contract: Seventh Edition. Blackwell Science Ltd, Oxford, UK.

An edited book

Bhalla S (ed) (2007) Databases in Networked Information Systems: 5th International Workshop, DNIS 2007, Aizu-Wakamatsu, Japan, October 17-19, 2007. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Wilczenski FL, Coomey SM (2007) Administrative Issues. In: A Practical Guide to Service Learning: Strategies for Positive Development in Schools. Coomey SM (ed) Springer US, Boston, MA, p 49–56

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 Environment Interactions.

Blog post

Andrew E (2015) People Near Fracking Wells Show Higher Hospitalization Rates. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/people-near-fracking-wells-show-higher-hospitalization-rates/ (accessed 30 October 2018)

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 (1994) Research Fleet Modernization: NOAA Needs to Consider Alternatives to the Acquisition of New Vessels. 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

Zepeda S (2012) Housing First assertive community treatment program for adults with schizophrenia and co-occurring substance abuse: A grant proposal. 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

Moore KA (2007) Take Al Qaeda to Court. New York Times:A19.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Collins 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Collins 2009, Charron & Koechlin 2010).

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

Two authors: (Charron & Koechlin 2010)
Three or more authors: (Jiang et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Aquaculture Environment Interactions
Abbreviation	Aquac. Environ. Interact.
ISSN (print)	1869-215X
ISSN (online)	1869-7534
Scope	Aquatic Science Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law Water Science and Technology