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:

PaperpileThe citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNoteFind the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and othersThe style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeXBibTeX 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
Simmons JG (2010) Timeline: Lindau and the zeitgeist. Nature 467:S14-5
A journal article with 2 authors
Moore DE, Rymer MJ (2007) Talc-bearing serpentinite and the creeping section of the San Andreas fault. Nature 448:795–797
A journal article with 3 authors
Squartini T, van Lelyveld I, Garlaschelli D (2013) Early-warning signals of topological collapse in interbank networks. Sci Rep 3:3357
A journal article with 5 or more authors
Sala E, Aburto-Oropeza O, Paredes G, et al (2002) A general model for designing networks of marine reserves. Science 298:1991–1993

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
Exposito E, Diop C (2014) Smart SOA Platforms in Cloud Computing Architectures. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ
An edited book
Lumenta CB, Di Rocco C, Haase J, Mooij JJA (eds) (2010) Neurosurgery. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg
A chapter in an edited book
Zhao F-J, Zang C, Luo CB (2013) Standard System and Legal Protection of Food Security of Agricultural Special Products. In: Zhong Z (ed) Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Engineering and Applications (IEA) 2012: Volume 5. Springer, London, pp 23–28

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
Andrew E (2015) Can Civilisation Continue? An Earth System Scientist Explains. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/can-civilisation-continue-earth-system-scientist-explains/. 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) Year 2000 Computing Crisis: Medicare and the Delivery of Health Services Are at Risk. 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
Boyle CN (2013) Support program for transition age youth: A grant proposal. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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
Wagner J (2017) Victory for Morale Precedes an Actual Loss. New York Times SP8

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Simmons 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Moore and Rymer 2007; Simmons 2010).

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

  • Two authors: (Moore and Rymer 2007)
  • Three or more authors: (Sala et al. 2002)

About the journal

Full journal titleAquatic Geochemistry
AbbreviationAquat. Geochem.
ISSN (print)1380-6165
ISSN (online)1573-1421
ScopeGeochemistry and Petrology
Geophysics

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