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. Engheta N. OPTICS. 150 years of Maxwell’s equations. Science. 2015;349:136–7.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Lau WCY, Rubinstein JL. Subnanometre-resolution structure of the intact Thermus thermophilus H+-driven ATP synthase. Nature. 2011;481:214–8.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Kirk PDW, Babtie AC, Stumpf MPH. SYSTEMS BIOLOGY. Systems biology (un)certainties. Science. 2015;350:386–8.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Reynwar BJ, Illya G, Harmandaris VA, Müller MM, Kremer K, Deserno M. Aggregation and vesiculation of membrane proteins by curvature-mediated interactions. Nature. 2007;447:461–4.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Wartenberg TE. A Sneetch Is a Sneetch and Other Philosophical Discoveries. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell; 2013.

An edited book

1. Vinel A, Mehmood R, Berbineau M, Garcia CR, Huang C-M, Chilamkurti N, editors. Communication Technologies for Vehicles: 4th International Workshop, Nets4Cars/Nets4Trains 2012, Vilnius, Lithuania, April 25-27, 2012. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Schweitzer Y. Change of Mind-Set Following 9/11: The few that are already willing to Resort to Weapons of Mass Destruction. In: Green MS, Zenilman J, Cohen D, Wiser I, Balicer RD, editors. Risk Assessment and Risk Communication Strategies in Bioterrorism Preparedness. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2007. p. 55–66.

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. Luntz S. Sleep In To Stay Healthy. IFLScience. 2015. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/sleep-stay-healthy/. 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. NASA’s Choice of a Location for Its Proposed Lunar Curatorial Facility. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1976.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Martin RL. Development of a Nutrition Program with Emphasis on Use of Social Media for Middle School Students. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach; 2017.

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. Dinardo K. What Tim Cope Learned from the Nomads. New York Times. 2015;:TR3.

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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