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

Carrero-Martínez FA (2011) Education. Rethink summer student research. Science 334:313.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kaleeba JAR, Berger EA (2006) Kaposi’s sarcoma-associated herpesvirus fusion-entry receptor: cystine transporter xCT. Science 311:1921–1924.

A journal article with 3 authors

Mace KA, Pearson JC, McGinnis W (2005) An epidermal barrier wound repair pathway in Drosophila is mediated by grainy head. Science 308:381–385.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

De Tomaso AW, Nyholm SV, Palmeri KJ, Ishizuka KJ, Ludington WB, Mitchel K, Weissman IL (2005) Isolation and characterization of a protochordate histocompatibility locus. Nature 438:454–459.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Wempen F (2010) Microsoft® PowerPoint® 2010 Bible. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Au M-H, Miyaji A (eds) (2015) Provable Security: 9th International Conference, ProvSec 2015, Kanazawa, Japan, November 24-26, 2015, Proceedings, 1st ed. 2015. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Beskos A, Stuart A (2009) Computational Complexity of Metropolis-Hastings Methods in High Dimensions. In: Monte Carlo and Quasi-Monte Carlo Methods 2008. L’ Ecuyer P, Owen AB (eds) Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, p 61–71

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 E (2014) Explore the Ocean Floor From The Comfort Of Your Own Home. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/explore-ocean-floor-comfort-your-own-home/ (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 (1979) Acquisition of Automatic Data Processing Equipment at Federal Judicial Center. 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

Ayres R (2017) Optimization of a Novel Oxy-Michael Ugi-Smiles Reaction. Doctoral dissertation, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, IL

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) Mets Send Duda to Rays; More Trades May Follow. New York Times:B9.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Carrero-Martínez 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Kaleeba & Berger 2006, Carrero-Martínez 2011).

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

Two authors: (Kaleeba & Berger 2006)
Three or more authors: (De Tomaso et al. 2005)

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