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

Smaglik P (2003) Experience counts. Nature 424:1089.

A journal article with 2 authors

Scotland RW, Sanderson MJ (2004) The significance of few versus many in the tree of life. Science 303:643.

A journal article with 3 authors

Fortin NJ, Wright SP, Eichenbaum H (2004) Recollection-like memory retrieval in rats is dependent on the hippocampus. Nature 431:188–191.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Vose RS, Karl TR, Easterling DR, Williams CN, Menne MJ (2004) Climate (communication arising): impact of land-use change on climate. Nature 427:213–4; discussion 214.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Rossetti N (2005) Managing Power Electronics. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Cherif C (ed) (2016) Textile Materials for Lightweight Constructions: Technologies - Methods - Materials - Properties. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Carter M, Matthews D (2012) Configuration Management and Version Control in Earth System Modelling. In: Earth System Modelling - Volume 5: Tools for Configuring, Building and Running Models. SpringerBriefs in Earth System Sciences, Riley G, Budich R, Redler R (eds) Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, p 31–43

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

Hamilton K (2016) What The Consistency Of Your Poo Says About Your Health. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/what-the-consistency-of-your-poo-says-about-your-health/ (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) FCC: The Local Multipoint Distribution Service. 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

Dinh W (2009) Elderly Vietnamese’ perceptions of the effects of Adult Day Health Care services on their mental and physical well-being. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, 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

Billard M (2010) A Yoga Manifesto. New York Times:ST1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Smaglik 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Smaglik 2003, Scotland & Sanderson 2004).

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

Two authors: (Scotland & Sanderson 2004)
Three or more authors: (Vose et al. 2004)

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