How to format your references using the Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems. 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

Weijer, C.J. (2003). Visualizing signals moving in cells. Science (New York, N.Y.), 300(5616), 96–100.

A journal article with 2 authors

Ramsey, J.M. & Chester, F.M. (2004). Hybrid fracture and the transition from extension fracture to shear fracture. Nature, 428(6978), 63–66.

A journal article with 3 authors

He, C.Y., Pypaert, M. & Warren, G. (2005). Golgi duplication in Trypanosoma brucei requires Centrin2. Science (New York, N.Y.), 310(5751), 1196–1198.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Sun, Y., Cao, W., Li, S., Jin, S., Hu, K., Hu, L., et al. (2013). Ultrabright and multicolorful fluorescence of amphiphilic polyethyleneimine polymer dots for efficiently combined imaging and therapy. Scientific reports, 3, 3036.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Cayoun, B.A. (2015). Mindfulness-integrated CBT for Well-being and Personal Growth. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd: Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Zayas, V. & Hazan, C. (Eds.). (2015). Bases of Adult Attachment: Linking Brain, Mind and Behavior. Springer: New York, NY.

A chapter in an edited book

Moreira, O. & Corporaal, H. (2014). Resource Modeling and Compile Time Scheduling. In: , Corporaal H (ed). Scheduling Real-Time Streaming Applications onto an Embedded Multiprocessor. Springer International Publishing: Cham, pp. 77–116.

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 Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems.

Blog post

Davis, J. (2016). Stand-up Comedians Are More Likely To Die Prematurely, With The Funniest Most Likely To Go First. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/standup-comedians-are-more-likely-to-die-prematurely-with-the-funniest-most-likely-to-go-first/ [Accessed 30 October 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

Government Accountability Office. (2004). Surface Transportation: Many Factors Affect Investment Decisions. U.S. Government Printing Office. Report number: GAO-04-744.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Munn, J.E. (2017). Information Technology Certification Training Implementation: Exploratory Case Study of Air Force and Civilian Leaders Experiences. . 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

Crow, K. (2002). When Windows on a Building Become Windows of the Soul. New York Times, 148.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Weijer, 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Weijer, 2003; Ramsey & Chester, 2004).

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

Two authors: (Ramsey & Chester, 2004)
Three authors: (He, Pypaert & Warren, 2005)
4 or more authors: (Sun et al., 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems
Abbreviation	Aquat. Conserv.
ISSN (print)	1052-7613
ISSN (online)	1099-0755
Scope	Aquatic Science Ecology Nature and Landscape Conservation