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

Butler, D., 2001. Institutes prepare for pioneering bioinformatics work. Nature 412, 106.

A journal article with 2 authors

Atkinson, T., Leeder, M., 2008. Geology. Canyon cutting on a grand time scale. Science 319, 1343–1344.

A journal article with 3 authors

Henrich, J., Heine, S.J., Norenzayan, A., 2010. Most people are not WEIRD. Nature 466, 29.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Gould, D.B., Phalan, F.C., Breedveld, G.J., van Mil, S.E., Smith, R.S., Schimenti, J.C., Aguglia, U., van der Knaap, M.S., Heutink, P., John, S.W.M., 2005. Mutations in Col4a1 cause perinatal cerebral hemorrhage and porencephaly. Science 308, 1167–1171.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Caban, S., Mehlführer, C., Rupp, M., Wrulich, M., 2011. Evaluation of HSDPA and LTE. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Keener, J., Sneyd, J. (Eds.), 2009. Mathematical Physiology: II: Systems Physiology, Interdisciplinary Applied Mathematics. Springer, New York, NY.

A chapter in an edited book

Balmer, A.S., Bulpin, K., Molyneux-Hodgson, S., 2016. Bodies, in: Bulpin, K., Molyneux-Hodgson, S. (Eds.), Synthetic Biology: A Sociology of Changing Practices. Palgrave Macmillan UK, London, pp. 116–150.

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

Carpineti, A., 2016. Underground Methane Is Making The Russian Tundra Wobble Like Jello [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/environment/underground-methane-is-making-the-russian-tundra-wobble-like-jello/ (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, 1994. USDA Restructuring: Refocus Info Share Program on Business Processes Rather Than Technology (No. AIMD-94-156). 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

Onal, B., 2015. RFID feasibility study for check-out stations at supermarkets (Doctoral dissertation). Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, IL.

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

Brantley, B., 2017. Scare Easily? You’re in the Wrong Place. New York Times C6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Butler, 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Atkinson and Leeder, 2008; Butler, 2001).

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

Two authors: (Atkinson and Leeder, 2008)
Three or more authors: (Gould et al., 2005)

About the journal

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