How to format your references using the Aquatic Biosystems citation style

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

1. Evans DAD. Proterozoic low orbital obliquity and axial-dipolar geomagnetic field from evaporite palaeolatitudes. Nature. 2006;444:51–5.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Lemons D, McGinnis W. Genomic evolution of Hox gene clusters. Science. 2006;313:1918–22.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Mogilner A, Allard J, Wollman R. Cell polarity: quantitative modeling as a tool in cell biology. Science. 2012;336:175–9.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Bram Y, Frydman-Marom A, Yanai I, Gilead S, Shaltiel-Karyo R, Amdursky N, et al. Apoptosis induced by islet amyloid polypeptide soluble oligomers is neutralized by diabetes-associated specific antibodies. Sci Rep. 2014;4:4267.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Lamperti JW. Probability: A Survey of the Mathematical Theory. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 1996.

An edited book

1. Mueller-Hoeppe D, Loehnert S, Reese S, editors. Recent Developments and Innovative Applications in Computational Mechanics. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Kool VK, Agrawal R. Behavior in the Virtual Environment. In: Agrawal R, editor. Psychology of Technology. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016. p. 187–251.

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 Biosystems.

Blog post

1. Andrew E. Does A Lack Of Vitamin D Put You At Greater Risk Of Multiple Sclerosis? IFLScience. 2015. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/does-lack-vitamin-d-put-you-greater-risk-multiple-sclerosis/. 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

1. Government Accountability Office. Airline Competition: Passenger Facility Charges Can Provide an Independent Source of Funding for Airport Expansion and Improvement Projects. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1990.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

1. Haghighat R. An optimization model to allocate budget in school rehabilitation projects. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach; 2015.

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

1. Kishkovsky S. Aleksei German, 74, Director of Anti-Soviet Movies. New York Times. 2013;:A20.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1, 2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Aquatic Biosystems
ISSN (print)	2046-9063
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