How to format your references using the Aquaculture Reports citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Aquaculture Reports. 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

Triendl, R., 2002. Slim pickings for silicon specialists. Nature 416, 6–7.

A journal article with 2 authors

Sekido, R., Lovell-Badge, R., 2008. Sex determination involves synergistic action of SRY and SF1 on a specific Sox9 enhancer. Nature 453, 930–934.

A journal article with 3 authors

Yamashita, Y.M., Jones, D.L., Fuller, M.T., 2003. Orientation of asymmetric stem cell division by the APC tumor suppressor and centrosome. Science 301, 1547–1550.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Yokouchi, Y., Ikeda, M., Inuzuka, Y., Yukawa, T., 2002. Strong emission of methyl chloride from tropical plants. Nature 416, 163–165.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Firth-Cozens, J., Harrison, J., 2010. How to Survive in Medicine. Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK.

An edited book

Kee, Y., Lee, S.J., Phillips, R. (Eds.), 2016. Social Factors and Community Well-Being, SpringerBriefs in Well-Being and Quality of Life Research. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Yang, G., Li, M., 2013. Western Political Science Theories and the Development of Political Theories in China, in: Guo, S. (Ed.), Political Science and Chinese Political Studies: The State of the Field. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 61–84.

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 Reports.

Blog post

Fang, J., 2014. Birds Adapting to Chernobyl’s Radiation [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/birds-adapting-chernobyls-radiation/ (accessed 10.30.18).

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. By Making the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory a Federal Computer Center, the Department of Energy Can Save Millions While Serving Government Agencies (No. EMD-78-30). 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

Al-Kharafi, H.T., 2017. TF-CBT with the Pediatric Medical Population: A Modification (Doctoral dissertation). Pepperdine University, Malibu, 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

Vecsey, G., 2010. Suspicion Is One Nemesis Armstrong Can’t Outpedal. New York Times B11.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Triendl, 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Sekido and Lovell-Badge, 2008; Triendl, 2002).

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

Two authors: (Sekido and Lovell-Badge, 2008)
Three or more authors: (Yokouchi et al., 2002)

About the journal

Full journal title	Aquaculture Reports
ISSN (print)	2352-5134
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