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

Kondro W (2000) RESEARCH COSTS: Canada to Begin Funding Overhead on Projects. Science (New York, NY) 290(5492): 687a

A journal article with 2 authors

Inamdar AA, Bennett JW (2014) A common fungal volatile organic compound induces a nitric oxide mediated inflammatory response in Drosophila melanogaster. Scientific reports 4: 3833

A journal article with 3 authors

Lam FH, Steger DJ, O’Shea EK (2008) Chromatin decouples promoter threshold from dynamic range. Nature 453(7192): 246–250

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Rudebeck PH, Buckley MJ, Walton ME, Rushworth MFS (2006) A role for the macaque anterior cingulate gyrus in social valuation. Science (New York, NY) 313(5791): 1310–1312

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Center for Chemical Process Safety (1995) Guidelines for Technical Planning for on-site Emergencies. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ,

An edited book

Ivchenko IN, Loyalka SK, Tompson RV (eds) (2007) Analytical Methods for Problems of Molecular Transport. Fluid Mechanics and Its Applications. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, XXIV, 409 p p

A chapter in an edited book

Lee H, Kim J, Kim J (2006) Decision Fusion of Shape and Motion Information Based on Bayesian Framework for Moving Object Classification in Image Sequences. In: Esposito F, Raś ZW, Malerba D, Semeraro G (eds), Foundations of Intelligent Systems: 16th International Symposium, ISMIS 2006, Bari, Italy, September 27-29, 2006. Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 19–28

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 Invasions.

Blog post

Josh Davis Researchers Trace The Mutations That May Have Led To The Zika Outbreak In Brazil (2016). IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/researchers-trace-the-mutations-that-may-have-led-to-the-zika-outbreak-in-brazil/ (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 (1974) Problems And Progress Of The U.S. Army Materiel Command’s Automated Data Processing Service Center Concept. B-178806, Washington, DC, October 9, 1974,

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Lee M (2009) Utilizing the Index of Learning Styles (ILS) in a technology-based publishing program. Doctoral dissertation Thesis. University of Phoenix, Phoenix, AZ,

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

Sisario B (2017) Harry Styles Tops Billboard Chart. New York Times p C3

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Kondro 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Kondro 2000; Inamdar and Bennett 2014).

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

Two authors: (Inamdar and Bennett 2014)
Three or more authors: (Rudebeck et al. 2006)

About the journal

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