How to format your references using the Aquatic Geochemistry citation style

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

Bourzac K (2012) Electronics: Back to analogue. Nature 483:S34-6

A journal article with 2 authors

Fowler JH, Schreiber D (2008) Biology, politics, and the emerging science of human nature. Science 322:912–914

A journal article with 3 authors

Rhode SC, Pawlowski M, Tollrian R (2001) The impact of ultraviolet radiation on the vertical distribution of zooplankton of the genus Daphnia. Nature 412:69–72

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Andersson RL, Ström V, Gedde UW, et al (2014) Micromechanics of ultra-toughened electrospun PMMA/PEO fibres as revealed by in-situ tensile testing in an electron microscope. Sci Rep 4:6335

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Wang Q (2013) Practical Design of Magnetostatic Structure Using Numerical Simulation. John Wiley & Sons (Asia) Pte Ltd, Singapore

An edited book

Dittrich Y, Burnett M, Mørch A, Redmiles D (eds) (2013) End-User Development: 4th International Symposium, IS-EUD 2013, Copenhagen, Denmark, June 10-13, 2013. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Singer W (2012) What binds it all together? Synchronized oscillatory activity in normal and pathological cognition. In: Barth FG, Giampieri-Deutsch P, Klein H-D (eds) Sensory Perception: Mind and Matter. Springer, Vienna, pp 57–70

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 Geochemistry.

Blog post

O`Callaghan J (2015) This Ultrathin “Invisibility Cloak” Makes It Impossible To See Microscopic Objects. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/physics/ultrathin-invisibility-cloak-makes-it-impossible-see-microscopic-objects/. 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 (1998) Food Assistance: Computerized Information Matching Could Reduce Fraud and Abuse in the Food Stamp Program. 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

Abrahamian A (2012) Diagnosis and treatment of childhood depression: A resource for pediatricians. Doctoral dissertation, Pepperdine 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

Gustines GG (2016) Tapping ’70s TV to Expand a Comic Book Lineup. New York Times B2

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Bourzac 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Fowler and Schreiber 2008; Bourzac 2012).

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

Two authors: (Fowler and Schreiber 2008)
Three or more authors: (Andersson et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Aquatic Geochemistry
Abbreviation	Aquat. Geochem.
ISSN (print)	1380-6165
ISSN (online)	1573-1421
Scope	Geochemistry and Petrology Geophysics