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

Smith, D.R., 2005. Applied physics. How to build a superlens. Science 308, 502–503.

A journal article with 2 authors

Sykora, S., Becker, K.W., 2013. Heavy fermion properties of the Kondo Lattice model. Sci. Rep. 3, 2691.

A journal article with 3 authors

Song, J., Ji, C., Zhang, J.Z.H., 2013. Unveiling the gating mechanism of ECF transporter RibU. Sci. Rep. 3, 3566.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Lee, H.-C., Chang, S.-S., Choudhary, S., Aalto, A.P., Maiti, M., Bamford, D.H., Liu, Y., 2009. qiRNA is a new type of small interfering RNA induced by DNA damage. Nature 459, 274–277.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Deichmann, U., 2005. Flüchten, Mitmachen, Vergessen. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, FRG.

An edited book

Maglyas, A., Lamprecht, A.-L. (Eds.), 2016. Software Business: 7th International Conference, ICSOB 2016, Ljubljana, Slovenia, June 13-14, 2016, Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Fritzson, P., Broman, D., Cellier, F., Nytsch-Geusen, C., 2008. Equation-Based Object-Oriented Languages and Tools Report on the Workshop EOOLT 2007 at ECOOP 2007, in: Cebulla, M. (Ed.), Object-Oriented Technology. ECOOP 2007 Workshop Reader: ECOOP 2007 Workshops, Berlin, Germany, July 30-31, 2007, Final Reports, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 27–39.

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

Andrew, D., 2017. Life On Earth Is Used To Gravity – So What Happens To Our Cells And Tissues In Space? [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/space/life-on-earth-is-used-to-gravity-so-what-happens-to-our-cells-and-tissues-in-space/ (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, 1995. Federal Lands: Information on the Use and Impact of Off-Highway Vehicles (No. RCED-95-209). 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

Obeng-Dompreh, S., 2008. The impact of servicemembers’ learning styles and computer anxiety levels on computer -mediated learning (Doctoral dissertation). University of Phoenix, Phoenix, AZ.

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

Hodara, S., 2014. Two Exhibitions, From Cover to Cover. New York Times CT10.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Smith, 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Smith, 2005; Sykora and Becker, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Sykora and Becker, 2013)
Three or more authors: (Lee et al., 2009)

About the journal

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