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. Amos LA. Biochemistry. Pressing levers or pulling strings? Science. 2008;322:1647–8.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Katz A, Davis ME. Molecular imprinting of bulk, microporous silica. Nature. 2000;403:286–9.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Hinde CA, Johnstone RA, Kilner RM. Parent-offspring conflict and coadaptation. Science. 2010;327:1373–6.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Arslan I, Yates TJV, Browning ND, Midgley PA. Embedded nanostructures revealed in three dimensions. Science. 2005;309:2195–8.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Bolstad WM. Understanding Computational Bayesian Statistics. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2009.

An edited book

1. A. Hardikar A, editor. Pancreatic Islet Biology. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Faller M. Plato’s Pythagorean Cosmos: Order and Chaos in the Intelligence of Natural Design. In: Swan L, Gordon R, Seckbach J, editors. Origin(s) of Design in Nature: A Fresh, Interdisciplinary Look at How Design Emerges in Complex Systems, Especially Life. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2012. p. 59–85.

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. Fang J. Watch Wasps Build Their Nest in a Window. IFLScience. 2014. 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. Federal Communications Commission: Use of the 28 GHz and 31 GHz Bands for Local Multipoint Distribution Service. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1997.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Romanek JL. The relative influence of sensation seeking and normal narcissism on academic cheating in emerging adults. Doctoral dissertation. Northcentral University; 2009.

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. Eligon J, Kovaleski SF, Coscarelli J. Pain and Pills, and Help Too Late to Save Prince. New York Times. 2016;:A1.

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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