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

Forrest SR (2004) The path to ubiquitous and low-cost organic electronic appliances on plastic. Nature 428:911–918

A journal article with 2 authors

Correia ACM, Laskar J (2004) Mercury’s capture into the 3/2 spin-orbit resonance as a result of its chaotic dynamics. Nature 429:848–850

A journal article with 3 authors

Wang C, Shim M, Guyot-Sionnest P (2001) Electrochromic nanocrystal quantum dots. Science 291:2390–2392

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Lierz M, Reinschmidt M, Müller H, et al (2013) A novel method for semen collection and artificial insemination in large parrots (Psittaciformes). Sci Rep 3:2066

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Louis J-P (2011) Control of Synchronous Motors. John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Hansen JHL, Boyraz P, Takeda K, Abut H (eds) (2012) Digital Signal Processing for In-Vehicle Systems and Safety. Springer, New York, NY

A chapter in an edited book

Kono M, Škorić MM (2010) Nonlinear Interactions in Plasmas. In: Skoric M (ed) Nonlinear Physics of Plasmas. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 113–149

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) Artificial Proteins Could Bring The Next Biological Revolution – Starting With MRI. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/artificial-proteins-could-bring-next-biological-revolution-starting-mri/. 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 (2006) Summary of a GAO Conference: Helping California Youths with Disabilities Transition to Work or Postsecondary 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

Lapizco-Encinas GC (2009) Cooperative particle swarm optimization for combinatorial problems. Doctoral dissertation, University of Maryland, College Park

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

Kercher S (2017) Modern Help for the Brokenhearted? It’s Online. New York Times D3

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Forrest 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Forrest 2004; Correia and Laskar 2004).

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

Two authors: (Correia and Laskar 2004)
Three or more authors: (Lierz et al. 2013)

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