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

Shonkoff, J.P., 2011. Protecting brains, not simply stimulating minds. Science 333, 982–983.

A journal article with 2 authors

Alekseev, V., Lampert, W., 2001. Maternal control of resting-egg production in Daphnia. Nature 414, 899–901.

A journal article with 3 authors

Grenfell, B.T., Bjørnstad, O.N., Kappey, J., 2001. Travelling waves and spatial hierarchies in measles epidemics. Nature 414, 716–723.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Vukovic, N., Healy, N., Suhailin, F.H., Mehta, P., Day, T.D., Badding, J.V., Peacock, A.C., 2013. Ultrafast optical control using the Kerr nonlinearity in hydrogenated amorphous silicon microcylindrical resonators. Sci. Rep. 3, 2885.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Chappell, D., 2008. Parris’s Standard Form of Building Contract. Blackwell Science Ltd, Oxford, UK.

An edited book

Watson, R.R., Preedy, V.R., Zibadi, S. (Eds.), 2013. Alcohol, Nutrition, and Health Consequences, Nutrition and Health. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ.

A chapter in an edited book

Slater, T., 2016. The Neoliberal State and the 2011 English Riots: A Class Analysis, in: Mayer, M., Thörn, C., Thörn, H. (Eds.), Urban Uprisings: Challenging Neoliberal Urbanism in Europe. Palgrave Macmillan UK, London, pp. 121–148.

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

O`Callaghan, J., 2017. Lifelong Protection From Severe Allergies Could Be Possible With New Treatment [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/lifelong-protection-from-severe-allergies-could-be-possible-with-new-treatment/ (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, 1972. Accounting System for Research and Development, Army Natick Laboratories (No. 092853). 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

Wulfsberg, J.C., 2015. Singing Turkish, performing Turkishness: Message and audience in the song competition of the International Turkish Olympiad (Doctoral dissertation). University of Arizona, Tucson, 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

Kenigsberg, B., 2017. Fangs, Fur and Plenty of Firepower. New York Times C4.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Shonkoff, 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Alekseev and Lampert, 2001; Shonkoff, 2011).

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

Two authors: (Alekseev and Lampert, 2001)
Three or more authors: (Vukovic et al., 2013)

About the journal

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