How to format your references using the Aquatic Invasions citation style

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

Ritchie MG (2007) Evolution. Feathers, females, and fathers. Science (New York, NY) 318(5847): 54–55

A journal article with 2 authors

Trampert J, Heijst HJ van (2002) Global azimuthal anisotropy in the transition zone. Science (New York, NY) 296(5571): 1297–1299

A journal article with 3 authors

Maisel SB, Höfler M, Müller S (2012) A canonical stability-elasticity relationship verified for one million face-centred-cubic structures. Nature 491(7426): 740–743

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Silveira Petruci JF da, Fortes PR, Kokoric V, Wilk A, Raimundo IM, Cardoso AA, Mizaikoff B (2013) Real-time monitoring of ozone in air using substrate-integrated hollow waveguide mid-infrared sensors. Scientific reports 3: 3174

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Smith GS (2013) Straight to the Top. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ,

An edited book

Chavet C, Coussy P (eds) (2015) Advanced Hardware Design for Error Correcting Codes. Springer International Publishing, Cham, IX, 192 p. 81 illus., 25 illus. in color p

A chapter in an edited book

Hofmann E, Maucher D, Kotula M, Kreienbrink O (2014) Supplier Evaluation and Performance Measurement on the Buyer-Supplier-Relationship Level. In: Maucher D, Kotula M, Kreienbrink O (eds), Performance Measurement and Incentive Systems in Purchasing: More Than Just Savings. Professional Supply Management. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 93–127

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 Invasions.

Blog post

Ben Taub Practically Unknown STI Could Have Infected Huge Numbers Of People Without Them Knowing Anything About It (2015). IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/are-you-unknowingly-infected-gross-sti/ (Accessed 30 October 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 (1977) Summary of a Report: The National School Lunch Program, Is It Working? PAD-77-7, Washington, DC, July 26, 1977,

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Ziegler RT (2017) The Impact of Strategic Planning Involvement on Employee Engagement in a Federal Public Health Agency. Doctoral dissertation Thesis. Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA,

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

Kishkovsky S (2015) Russia Sentences Estonian to 15 Years in Spy Case. New York Times p A10

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Ritchie 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Trampert and van Heijst 2002; Ritchie 2007).

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

Two authors: (Trampert and van Heijst 2002)
Three or more authors: (da Silveira Petruci et al. 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Aquatic Invasions
Abbreviation	Aquat. Invasions
ISSN (online)	1818-5487
Scope	Aquatic Science Water Science and Technology