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

Leary RH (2001) Energy landscapes. Flirting with catastrophe. Science 293:2013–2014

A journal article with 2 authors

Sajish M, Schimmel P (2015) A human tRNA synthetase is a potent PARP1-activating effector target for resveratrol. Nature 519:370–373

A journal article with 3 authors

Williams MA, Tyznik AJ, Bevan MJ (2006) Interleukin-2 signals during priming are required for secondary expansion of CD8+ memory T cells. Nature 441:890–893

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Song Q, Gu Z, Liu S, Xiao S (2014) Coherent destruction of tunneling in chaotic microcavities via three-state anti-crossings. Sci Rep 4:4858

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Jazar RN (2011) Advanced Dynamics. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Groettrup M (ed) (2010) Conjugation and Deconjugation of Ubiquitin Family Modifiers: Subcellular Biochemistry. Springer, New York, NY

A chapter in an edited book

Babé A, Labbé D, Monot F, et al (2007) Biodegradability of Oxygenates by Microflora from MTBE-Contaminated Sites: New Molecular Tools. In: Barceló D (ed) Fuel Oxygenates. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 75–98

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

Hamilton K (2016) Addicted To Oil: US Gasoline Consumption Is Higher Than Ever. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/addicted-to-oil-us-gasoline-consumption-is-higher-than-ever/. 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 (1972) Settlement of Accounts of Certifying Officer, Lewis Research Center. 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

Reyes JM (2010) A support group for adults with rheumatoid arthritis. 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

Hodara S (2015) Exploring Gender as Disguise and Identity. New York Times CT10

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Leary 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Leary 2001; Sajish and Schimmel 2015).

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

Two authors: (Sajish and Schimmel 2015)
Three or more authors: (Song et al. 2014)

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