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

Westervelt RM (2008) Applied physics. Graphene nanoelectronics. Science 320:324–325.

A journal article with 2 authors

Milo R, Last RL (2012) Achieving diversity in the face of constraints: lessons from metabolism. Science 336:1663–1667.

A journal article with 3 authors

Danielewicz P, Lacey R, Lynch WG (2002) Determination of the equation of state of dense matter. Science 298:1592–1596.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Zhang Z-M, Lu R, Wang P, Yu Y, Chen D, Gao L, Liu S, Ji D, Rothbart SB, Wang Y, Wang GG, Song J (2018) Structural basis for DNMT3A-mediated de novo DNA methylation. Nature 554:387–391.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Relethford JH (2017) 50 Great Myths of Human Evolution. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Van Cutsem E, Vogl TJ, Orsi F, Sobrero A (eds) (2015) Locoregional Tumor Therapy. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Kapetanakis S, Petridis M (2014) Evaluating a Case-Based Reasoning Architecture for the Intelligent Monitoring of Business Workflows. In: Successful Case-based Reasoning Applications-2. Studies in Computational Intelligence, Montani S, Jain LC (eds) Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, p 43–54

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

Andrews R (2015) Massive Methane Reservoirs Being Unleashed By Global Warming. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/massive-methane-reservoirs-being-unleashed-global-warming/ (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 (2015) Strategic Sourcing: Opportunities Exist to Better Manage Information Technology Services Spending. 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

Boerner CL (2013) The organizational culture and leadership values that impact Native American water utility organizations. Doctoral dissertation, Pepperdine University, Malibu, 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

Barron J (2017) Mystery of the Hamilton Painting at City Hall: Lost, Stolen or Never There? 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 (Westervelt 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Westervelt 2008, Milo & Last 2012).

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

Two authors: (Milo & Last 2012)
Three authors: (Danielewicz et al. 2002)
99 or more authors: (Zhang et al. 2018)

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