How to format your references using the Aquatic Data citation style

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

Witkowski, J.A., 2002. Mad hatters at the DNA tea party. Nature 415, 473–474.

A journal article with 2 authors

Flint, J., Munafò, M., 2014. Schizophrenia: genesis of a complex disease. Nature 511, 412–413.

A journal article with 3 authors

Attardo, A., Fitzgerald, J.E., Schnitzer, M.J., 2015. Impermanence of dendritic spines in live adult CA1 hippocampus. Nature 523, 592–596.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Müller-Navarra, D.C., Brett, M.T., Park, S., Chandra, S., Ballantyne, A.P., Zorita, E., Goldman, C.R., 2004. Unsaturated fatty acid content in seston and tropho-dynamic coupling in lakes. Nature 427, 69–72.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kirsh, S.J., 2009. Media and Youth. Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK.

An edited book

Nakhleh, R.E. (Ed.), 2015. Error Reduction and Prevention in Surgical Pathology. Springer, New York, NY.

A chapter in an edited book

Ruß, G., Kruse, R., Schneider, M., Wagner, P., 2009. Visualization of Agriculture Data Using Self-Organizing Maps, in: Allen, T., Ellis, R., Petridis, M. (Eds.), Applications and Innovations in Intelligent Systems XVI: Proceedings of AI-2008, the Twenty-Eighth SGAI International Conference on Innovative Techniques and Applications of Artificial Intelligence. Springer, London, pp. 47–60.

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 Data.

Blog post

Luntz, S., 2015. Pluto’s Moons Are In “Absolute Chaos” [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/space/moons-chaos/ (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, 1976. Comments on Federal Payments to the Adelanto School District, California (No. B-164031(1).90). 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

Zepeda, S., 2012. Housing First assertive community treatment program for adults with schizophrenia and co-occurring substance abuse: A grant proposal (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Kenigsberg, B., 2017. Alina. New York Times C11.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Witkowski, 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Flint and Munafò, 2014; Witkowski, 2002).

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

Two authors: (Flint and Munafò, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Müller-Navarra et al., 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	Aquatic Data
ISSN (print)	2468-1318
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