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

Goldston D (2009) The climate to get things done. Nature 458:21.

A journal article with 2 authors

Heisler IA, Meech SR (2010) Low-frequency modes of aqueous alkali halide solutions: glimpsing the hydrogen bonding vibration. Science 327:857–860.

A journal article with 3 authors

Wuchty S, Jones BF, Uzzi B (2007) The increasing dominance of teams in production of knowledge. Science 316:1036–1039.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Juo ZS, Kassavetis GA, Wang J, Geiduschek EP, Sigler PB (2003) Crystal structure of a transcription factor IIIB core interface ternary complex. Nature 422:534–539.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Knopf FC (2011) Modeling, Analysis and Optimization of Process and Energy Systems. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Ahmad MS (2015) Postharvest Quality Assurance of Fruits: Practical Approaches for Developing Countries, 1st ed. 2015. Siddiqui MW (ed) Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Simpson CG, Brown JWS (2008) U12-Dependent Intron Splicing in Plants. In: Nuclear pre-mRNA Processing in Plants. Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology, Reddy ASN, Golovkin M (eds) Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, p 61–82

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 (2016) Hidden Housemates: Australia’s Huge And Hairy Huntsman Spiders. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/hidden-housemates-australia-s-huge-and-hairy-huntsman-spiders/ (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 (1977) Computer Operations and Data Processing Activities at the Social Security Administration. 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

Hobbs E (2017) Rehearing Florence Price: A Closer Look at Her Symphony in E Minor. 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

Kelly D (1995) The Pink Sheep. New York Times:729.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Goldston 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Goldston 2009, Heisler & Meech 2010).

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

Two authors: (Heisler & Meech 2010)
Three authors: (Wuchty et al. 2007)
99 or more authors: (Juo et al. 2003)

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