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

Bindschadler R (2006) Climate change. Hitting the ice sheets where it hurts. Science 311:1720–1721.

A journal article with 2 authors

Keene WC, Pszenny AAP (2004) Comment on ‘Reactions at interfaces as a source of sulfate formation in sea-salt particles’ (I). Science 303:628; author reply 628.

A journal article with 3 authors

Rogers Hollingsworth J, Müller KH, Hollingsworth EJ (2008) China: The end of the science superpowers. Nature 454:412–413.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Lee G-H, Lee H-Y, Li B, Kim H-R, Chae H-J (2014) Bax inhibitor-1-mediated inhibition of mitochondrial Ca2+ intake regulates mitochondrial permeability transition pore opening and cell death. Sci Rep 4:5194.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Nazarov VE, Radostin AV (2014) Nonlinear Acoustic Waves in Micro-inhomogeneous Solids. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Meng WCS, Cheung HYS, Lam DTY, Ng SSM (eds) (2015) Minimally Invasive Coloproctology: Advances in Techniques and Technology, 1st ed. 2015. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Billaut J-C, Hebrard E, Lopez P (2012) Complete Characterization of Near-Optimal Sequences for the Two-Machine Flow Shop Scheduling Problem. In: Integration of AI and OR Techniques in Contraint Programming for Combinatorial Optimzation Problems: 9th International Conference, CPAIOR 2012, Nantes, France, May 28 – June1, 2012. Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Beldiceanu N, Jussien N, Pinson É (eds) Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, p 66–80

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

Andrew E (2015) 425-Million-Year-Old Parasite Found Still Attached To Its Victim. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/425-million-year-old-parasite-fossil-found-attached-its-victim/ (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 (2012) Airport Noise Grants: FAA Needs to Better Ensure Project Eligibility and Improve Strategic Goal and Performance Measures. 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

Wilson WC (2015) Life satisfaction of Air Force civilian male spouses. 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

Novick SM (2016) Flavorful Encores From Jean-Georges. New York Times:LI5.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Bindschadler 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Keene & Pszenny 2004, Bindschadler 2006).

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

Two authors: (Keene & Pszenny 2004)
Three authors: (Rogers Hollingsworth et al. 2008)
99 or more authors: (Lee et al. 2014)

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