How to format your references using the Aquaculture International citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Aquaculture International. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Emanuel K (2005) Increasing destructiveness of tropical cyclones over the past 30 years. Nature 436:686–688

A journal article with 2 authors

Wang K, Mittleman DM (2004) Metal wires for terahertz wave guiding. Nature 432:376–379

A journal article with 3 authors

Melton C, Judson RL, Blelloch R (2010) Opposing microRNA families regulate self-renewal in mouse embryonic stem cells. Nature 463:621–626

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Wessberg J, Stambaugh CR, Kralik JD, et al (2000) Real-time prediction of hand trajectory by ensembles of cortical neurons in primates. Nature 408:361–365

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Lewis S (2016) Positive Psychology and Change. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Larica C, Mercader RC, Partiti C, Gancedo JR (eds) (2009) LACAME 2006: Proceedings of the 10th Latin American Conference on the Applications of the Mössbauer Effect (LACAME 2006) held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 5–9 November 2006. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Reyes M, Meza I, Pineda LA (2016) The Positive Effect of Negative Feedback in HRI Using a Facial Expression Robot. In: Koh JTKV, Dunstan BJ, Silvera-Tawil D, Velonaki M (eds) Cultural Robotics: First International Workshop, CR 2015, Held as Part of IEEE RO-MAN 2015, Kobe, Japan, August 31, 2015. Revised Selected Papers. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 44–54

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 International.

Blog post

Hale T (2016) SpaceX Pay Homage To The Falcon 9 Rocket In Beautiful Slow-Motion Video. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/spacex-pay-homage-to-the-falcon-9-rocket-in-beautiful-slowmotion-video/. Accessed 30 Oct 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 (1978) Need for Active Alcohol Public Education Program. 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

Britt CA (2012) Dying in America: A historical analysis of physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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

Greenhouse L (2017) What the Chief Justice Should Have Said. New York Times SR3

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Emanuel 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Wang and Mittleman 2004; Emanuel 2005).

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

Two authors: (Wang and Mittleman 2004)
Three or more authors: (Wessberg et al. 2000)

About the journal

Full journal title	Aquaculture International
Abbreviation	Aquac. Int.
ISSN (print)	0967-6120
ISSN (online)	1573-143X
Scope	Agronomy and Crop Science Aquatic Science