How to format your references using the Aquatic Sciences citation style

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

Aubert J (2015) PLANETARY SCIENCE. Ancient planetary dynamos, take two. Science 349:475–476

A journal article with 2 authors

Dey S, Joshi A (2006) Stability via asynchrony in Drosophila metapopulations with low migration rates. Science 312:434–436

A journal article with 3 authors

Hammami A, Raymond N, Armand M (2003) Lithium-ion batteries: runaway risk of forming toxic compounds. Nature 424:635–636

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Choi CM, Vilain S, Langen M, et al (2009) Conditional mutagenesis in Drosophila. Science 324:54

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Abdel-aleem S (2010) The Design and Management of Medical Device clinical Trials. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Levin Z, Cotton WR (eds) (2009) Aerosol Pollution Impact on Precipitation: A Scientific Review. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht

A chapter in an edited book

Oren N (2014) Argument Schemes for Normative Practical Reasoning. In: Black E, Modgil S, Oren N (eds) Theory and Applications of Formal Argumentation: Second International Workshop, TAFA 2013, Beijing, China, August 3-5, 2013, Revised Selected papers. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 63–78

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 Sciences.

Blog post

Andrew E (2015) What Medicines Would We Pack For A Trip To Mars? In: IFLScience. Accessed 30 Oct 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 (2001) Public Assistance: PARIS Project Can Help States Reduce Improper Benefit Payments. 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

Li L (2012) Internal conflicts through external design: Costuming the contradictions in “The Love Song of J. Robert Oppenheimer.” Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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

Kelly K, Stevenson A (2017) Doubt After Health Care Defeat Briefly Sends Stocks Tumbling. New York Times B1

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Aubert 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Dey and Joshi 2006; Aubert 2015).

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

Two authors: (Dey and Joshi 2006)
Three or more authors: (Choi et al. 2009)

About the journal

Full journal title	Aquatic Sciences
Abbreviation	Aquat. Sci.
ISSN (print)	1015-1621
ISSN (online)	1420-9055
Scope	Aquatic Science Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics Ecology Water Science and Technology