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

Atwood HL (2006) Neuroscience. Gatekeeper at the synapse. Science 312:1008–1009

A journal article with 2 authors

Rez P, Treacy MMJ (2013) Three-dimensional imaging of dislocations. Nature 503:E1

A journal article with 3 authors

Dhuime B, Hawkesworth C, Cawood P (2011) Geochemistry. When continents formed. Science 331:154–155

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Renner FU, Stierle A, Dosch H, et al (2006) Initial corrosion observed on the atomic scale. Nature 439:707–710

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Menk FW, Waters CL (2013) Magnetoseismology. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany

An edited book

Gruen DM, Shenderova OA, Vul’ AY (eds) (2005) Synthesis, Properties and Applications of Ultrananocrystalline Diamond: Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Synthesis, Properties and Applications of Ultrananocrystalline Diamond St. Petersburg, Russia 7–10 June 2004. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht

A chapter in an edited book

Shaikh SH, Saeed K, Chaki N (2014) Databases for Research. In: Saeed K, Chaki N (eds) Moving Object Detection Using Background Subtraction. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 49–65

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

Luntz S (2015) How To Sex A Dinosaur. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/how-sex-dinosaur/. 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 (2014) Information Technology: Leveraging Best Practices and Reform Initiatives Can Help Agencies Better Manage Investments. 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

Equihua D (2010) The relationship of mental health and family factors to parental involvement in their children’s education among Latina mothers. 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

Kenigsberg B (2017) Hissein Habré, A Chadian Tragedy. New York Times C4

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Atwood 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Atwood 2006; Rez and Treacy 2013).

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

Two authors: (Rez and Treacy 2013)
Three or more authors: (Renner et al. 2006)

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