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. Allan V. Cell biology. One, two, three, cytoplasmic dynein is go! Science. 2014;345:271–2.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Carter RM, Gammon P. New Zealand maritime glaciation: millennial-scale southern climate change since 3.9 Ma. Science. 2004;304:1659–62.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Zeng B, Gao Y, Bartoli FJ. Ultrathin nanostructured metals for highly transmissive plasmonic subtractive color filters. Sci Rep. 2013;3:2840.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Hüttelmaier S, Zenklusen D, Lederer M, Dictenberg J, Lorenz M, Meng X, et al. Spatial regulation of beta-actin translation by Src-dependent phosphorylation of ZBP1. Nature. 2005;438:512–5.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Ruppel W. Wiley GAAP for Governments 2015. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2015.

An edited book

1. Hüllermeier E, Kruse R, Hoffmann F, editors. Computational Intelligence for Knowledge-Based Systems Design: 13th International Conference on Information Processing and Management of Uncertainty, IPMU 2010, Dortmund, Germany, June 28 - July 2, 2010. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Píbil R, Novák P, Brom C, Gemrot J. Notes on Pragmatic Agent-Programming with Jason. In: Dennis L, Boissier O, Bordini RH, editors. Programming Multi-Agent Systems: 9th International Workshop, ProMAS 2011, Taipei, Taiwan, May 3, 2011, Revised Selected Papers. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2012. p. 58–73.

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. A 3.5-Billion Year Old Pilbara Find Is Not The Oldest Fossil: So What Is It? IFLScience. 2015. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/35-billion-year-old-pilbara-find-not-oldest-fossil-so-what-it/. 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 Aviation Administration’s Acquisition of the Advanced Automation System. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1987.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. McCallum-Bonar C. Black Ashkenaz And the Almost Promised Land: Yiddish Literature and the Harlem Renaissance. Doctoral dissertation. Ohio State University; 2008.

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. Saslow L. Nassau Taking Steps Against Feral Cats. New York Times. 2007;:LI2.

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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