How to format your references using the Aquatic Procedia citation style

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

Gibson, V.C., 2006. Chemistry. Shuttling polyolefins to a new materials dimension. Science 312, 703–704.

A journal article with 2 authors

Zubkov, M.V., Tarran, G.A., 2008. High bacterivory by the smallest phytoplankton in the North Atlantic Ocean. Nature 455, 224–226.

A journal article with 3 authors

Lohse, D., Schmitz, B., Versluis, M., 2001. Snapping shrimp make flashing bubbles. Nature 413, 477–478.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

MacLaren, R.E., Pearson, R.A., MacNeil, A., Douglas, R.H., Salt, T.E., Akimoto, M., Swaroop, A., Sowden, J.C., Ali, R.R., 2006. Retinal repair by transplantation of photoreceptor precursors. Nature 444, 203–207.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Aubry, J.-F., Brinzei, N., Mazouni, M.-H., 2016. Systems Dependability Assessment. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Rizzi, A., 2011. Logistica e tecnologia RFID: Creare valore nella filiera alimentare e nel largo consumo, Food. Springer, Milano.

A chapter in an edited book

Li, Y., 2010. Local Community of Eco-politics: Its Potentials and Limitations, in: Huan, Q. (Ed.), Eco-Socialism as Politics: Rebuilding the Basis of Our Modern Civilisation. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp. 63–73.

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 Procedia.

Blog post

Hamilton, K., 2016. Natural Selection May Be The Answer To The Cancer Riddle, But Can We Beat Evolution? [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/natural-selection-may-be-the-answer-to-the-cancer-riddle-but-can-we-beat-evolution/ (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 2007. Transportation Security Administration’s Processes for Designating and Releasing Sensitive Security Information (No. GAO-08-232R). 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

Morales, C.J., 2010. Can early-life activity behavior predict adult compliance with an exercise program in later life? (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

Walsh, M.W., 2015. Senate Republicans Introduce Bill for Relief of Puerto Rico’s Financial Problems. New York Times B4.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Gibson, 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Gibson, 2006; Zubkov and Tarran, 2008).

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

Two authors: (Zubkov and Tarran, 2008)
Three or more authors: (MacLaren et al., 2006)

About the journal

Full journal title	Aquatic Procedia
Abbreviation	Aquat. Procedia
ISSN (print)	2214-241X
Scope