How to format your references using the Aquatic Microbial Ecology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Aquatic Microbial Ecology. 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	Download the output style file
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

Standfuss J (2015) Structural biology. Viral chemokine mimicry. Science 347:1071–1072.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kelliher T, Walbot V (2012) Hypoxia triggers meiotic fate acquisition in maize. Science 337:345–348.

A journal article with 3 authors

Chisari FV, Mason WS, Seeger C (2014) Virology. Comment on ‘Specific and nonhepatotoxic degradation of nuclear hepatitis B virus cccDNA’. Science 344:1237.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Caputi L, Franke J, Farrow SC, Chung K, Payne RME, Nguyen T-D, Dang T-TT, Soares Teto Carqueijeiro I, Koudounas K, Dugé de Bernonville T, Ameyaw B, Jones DM, Vieira IJC, Courdavault V, O’Connor SE (2018) Missing enzymes in the biosynthesis of the anticancer drug vinblastine in Madagascar periwinkle. Science 360:1235–1239.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Jacquenet C, Bourdon G, Boucadair M (2008) Service Automation and Dynamic Provisioning Techniques in IP/MPLS Environments. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Weinberg JM, Lebwohl M (eds) (2014) Advances in Psoriasis: A Multisystemic Guide. Springer, London.

A chapter in an edited book

Klopfleisch R (2016) Mammary Tumors. In: Veterinary Oncology: A Short Textbook. Klopfleisch R (ed) Springer International Publishing, Cham, p 99–108

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 Microbial Ecology.

Blog post

Andrew D (2016) Why Were There So Many Dinosaur Species? https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/why-were-there-so-many-dinosaur-species/ (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 (1978) Comments on Legislation To Establish a Department of Education. 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

Catt BS (2010) The reduction of surgical errors through a development of safety culture, teamwork, and communication. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, 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

Koblin J (2017) ‘Bachelor in Paradise’ To Resume Taping. New York Times:C3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Standfuss 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Kelliher & Walbot 2012, Standfuss 2015).

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

Two authors: (Kelliher & Walbot 2012)
Three authors: (Chisari et al. 2014)
99 or more authors: (Caputi et al. 2018)

About the journal

Full journal title	Aquatic Microbial Ecology
Abbreviation	Aquat. Microb. Ecol.
ISSN (print)	0948-3055
ISSN (online)	1616-1564
Scope	Aquatic Science Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics