How to format your references using the Aquatic Botany citation style

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

Ferrara, A., 2002. Astronomy. Radio noise from dust grains. Science 295, 638–639.

A journal article with 2 authors

Schmitt, J.H., Wichmann, R., 2001. Ground-based observation of emission lines from the corona of a red-dwarf star. Nature 412, 508–510.

A journal article with 3 authors

Sharam, G.J., Sinclair, A.R.E., Turkington, R., 2009. Serengeti birds maintain forests by inhibiting seed predators. Science 325, 51.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Reinhardt, R.L., Khoruts, A., Merica, R., Zell, T., Jenkins, M.K., 2001. Visualizing the generation of memory CD4 T cells in the whole body. Nature 410, 101–105.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Massad, J.J., Cagna, D.R., Goodacre, C.J., Wicks, R.A., Ahuja, S.A., 2017. Application of the Neutral Zone in Prosthodontics. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Sammes, N. (Ed.), 2006. Fuel Cell Technology: Reaching Towards Commercialization, Engineering Materials and Processes. Springer, London.

A chapter in an edited book

Boer, H., 2016. Advanced Manufacturing Technologies and Strategically Flexible Production. A Review and Outlook, in: Bartezzaghi, E., Cagliano, R., Caniato, F., Ronchi, S. (Eds.), A Journey through Manufacturing and Supply Chain Strategy Research: A Tribute to Professor Gianluca Spina. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 71–110.

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 Botany.

Blog post

Taub, B., 2016. Cannabis Could Improve Your Night Vision [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/brain/cannabis-could-improve-your-night-vision/ (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 1986. Digests of Unpublished Decisions of the Comptroller General, Vol. III, No. 3 (No. 132675). 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

Jurka, J., 2010. The importance of being a complement: CED effects revisited (Doctoral dissertation). University of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD.

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

Timur, S., Nordland, R., 2016. Angry at European Action, Turkey Threatens to Let Migrant Flood Resume. New York Times A4.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Ferrara, 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Ferrara, 2002; Schmitt and Wichmann, 2001).

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

Two authors: (Schmitt and Wichmann, 2001)
Three or more authors: (Reinhardt et al., 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	Aquatic Botany
Abbreviation	Aquat. Bot.
ISSN (print)	0304-3770
Scope	Aquatic Science Plant Science