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

Abbott A (2003) Human fatality adds fresh impetus to fight against bird flu. Nature 423:5

A journal article with 2 authors

Burns JA, Cuzzi JN (2006) Planetary science. Our local astrophysical laboratory. Science 312:1753–1755

A journal article with 3 authors

Hayashi K, de Sousa Lopes SMC, Surani MA (2007) Germ cell specification in mice. Science 316:394–396

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Li C, Fu L, Ouyang J, Yang H (2013) Enhanced performance and interfacial investigation of mineral-based composite phase change materials for thermal energy storage. Sci Rep 3:1908

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Knudsen S (2005) Guide to Analysis of DNA Microarray Data. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Saha SK (2015) Critical Heat Flux in Flow Boiling in Microchannels. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Bentivoglio M, Nygård M, Palomba M, Kristensson K (2007) The Biological Clock in Inflammation and Sleep Switch Alterations. In: Pandi-Perumal SR, Cardinali DP, Chrousos GP (eds) Neuroimmunology of Sleep. Springer US, Boston, MA, pp 87–96

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

Andrew E (2015) Child Receives Double Hand Transplant. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/worlds-first-bilateral-hand-transplant-child-success/. 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 (1989) Supplemental Student Loans: Who Borrows and Who Defaults. 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

Astorga J (2012) Mentoring program for emancipated foster youth: A grant proposal. 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

Leland J (2016) Mystery Ends: Date and Venue Are Set for Chess Event. New York Times A17

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Abbott 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Abbott 2003; Burns and Cuzzi 2006).

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

Two authors: (Burns and Cuzzi 2006)
Three or more authors: (Li et al. 2013)

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

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