How to format your references using the Aquatic Ecology citation style

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

Walldén L (2006) Physics. Beyond the particle in the box. Science 314:769–770

A journal article with 2 authors

Barron AB, Brown MJF (2012) Science journalism: Let’s talk about sex. Nature 488:151–152

A journal article with 3 authors

Su D, Dou S, Wang G (2014) Single crystalline Co3O4 nanocrystals exposed with different crystal planes for Li-O2 batteries. Sci Rep 4:5767

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Gomberg J, Reasenberg PA, Bodin P, Harris RA (2001) Earthquake triggering by seismic waves following the Landers and Hector Mine earthquakes. Nature 411:462–466

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Evans R (2010) Seven Secrets of the Savvy School Leader. Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, CA, USA

An edited book

Foss C, Gray JW, Whalen Z (eds) (2016) Disability in Comic Books and Graphic Narratives. Palgrave Macmillan UK, London

A chapter in an edited book

Ranasinghe DC, Harrison M, Cole PH (2008) EPC Network Architecture. In: Cole PH, Ranasinghe DC (eds) Networked RFID Systems and Lightweight Cryptography: Raising Barriers to Product Counterfeiting. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 59–78

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 Ecology.

Blog post

Luntz S (2016) This Is The Most Realistic Reconstruction Of A Dinosaur Ever Made. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/this-is-the-most-realistic-reconstruction-of-a-dinosaur-ever-made/. Accessed 30 Oct 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 (1999) Telecommunications: Impact of Sports Programming Costs on Cable Television Rates. 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

Simmons CI (2017) A Logistic Regression Analysis of Multiple Independent Variables Impacting Psychiatric Readmissions. Doctoral dissertation, Capella University

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

Montague J (2017) Door Opens to Hinterlands of Soccer. New York Times B10

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Walldén 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Walldén 2006; Barron and Brown 2012).

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

Two authors: (Barron and Brown 2012)
Three or more authors: (Gomberg et al. 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	Aquatic Ecology
Abbreviation	Aquat. Ecol.
ISSN (print)	1386-2588
ISSN (online)	1573-5125
Scope	Aquatic Science Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics General Agricultural and Biological Sciences