How to format your references using the Aquatic Biology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Aquatic Biology. 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	Download the output style file
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

Wakeham B (2008) UK physics gets a health check. Nature 455:592.

A journal article with 2 authors

Veronin MA, Youan B-BC (2004) Medicine. Magic bullet gone astray: medications and the Internet. Science 305:481.

A journal article with 3 authors

Mourre V, Villa P, Henshilwood CS (2010) Early use of pressure flaking on lithic artifacts at Blombos Cave, South Africa. Science 330:659–662.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Chen SF, Du CW, Yang P, Zhang HW, Kwan M, Zhang GJ (2013) The molecular and clinicopathologic characteristics of bilateral breast cancer. Sci Rep 3:2590.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Sofronas A (2005) Analytical Troubleshooting of Process Machinery and Pressure Vessels. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Ding Y, Rousseau R, Wolfram D (eds) (2014) Measuring Scholarly Impact: Methods and Practice. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Yan X, Wang S, El-Latif AAA, Sang J, Niu X (2014) A Novel Perceptual Secret Sharing Scheme. In: Transactions on Data Hiding and Multimedia Security IX: Special Issue on Visual Cryptography. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Shi YQ, Liu F, Yan W (eds) Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, p 68–90

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 Aquatic Biology.

Blog post

Hale T (2017) Nearly 1 Billion People Worldwide Still Smoke Everyday. (accessed 30 October 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 (1997) School Meal Programs: Sharing Information on Best Practices May Improve Programs’ Operations. 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

Duncan KF (2016) Middle school teachers’ self-perceptions of response to intervention. Doctoral dissertation, Capella University, Minneapolis, MN

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

Shear MD, Haberman M (2017) Volume Rising In Nativist Talk From President. New York Times:A1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Wakeham 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Veronin & Youan 2004, Wakeham 2008).

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

Two authors: (Veronin & Youan 2004)
Three authors: (Mourre et al. 2010)
99 or more authors: (Chen et al. 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Aquatic Biology
Abbreviation	Aquat. Biol.
ISSN (print)	1864-7782
ISSN (online)	1864-7790
Scope	Aquatic Science Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics Oceanography Ecology