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

Heyde M (2013) Materials Science. Structure and motion of a 2D glass. Science 342:201–202

A journal article with 2 authors

Greig D, Travisano M (2003) Evolution. Haploid superiority. Science 299:524–525

A journal article with 3 authors

Roberts JM, Wheeler AJ, Freiwald A (2006) Reefs of the deep: the biology and geology of cold-water coral ecosystems. Science 312:543–547

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Nguyen KB, Watford WT, Salomon R, et al (2002) Critical role for STAT4 activation by type 1 interferons in the interferon-gamma response to viral infection. Science 297:2063–2066

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Berto F (2009) There’s Something about Gödel. Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK

An edited book

Trstenjak V, Weingerl P (eds) (2016) The Influence of Human Rights and Basic Rights in Private Law. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Buchmann J, Vollmer U (2007) Constructing Forms. In: Vollmer U (ed) Binary Quadratic Forms: An Algorithmic Approach. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 35–56

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

Taub B (2016) “Spirit Molecule” DMT Keeps Cells Alive When Oxygen Levels Are Low. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/spirit-molecule-dmt-keeps-cells-alive-when-oxygen-levels-low/. 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 (1993) B-2 Costs. 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

Woodworth JW (2017) Secure Semantic Search over Encrypted Big Data in the Cloud. Doctoral dissertation, University of Louisiana

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

Grynbaum MM (2017) The Incredible Shrinking White House Briefing. New York Times A15

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Heyde 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Greig and Travisano 2003; Heyde 2013).

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

Two authors: (Greig and Travisano 2003)
Three or more authors: (Nguyen et al. 2002)

About the journal

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