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

Dickersin K (2010) Health-care policy. To reform U.S. health care, start with systematic reviews. Science 329:516–517

A journal article with 2 authors

Franklin CE, Axelsson M (2000) An actively controlled heart valve. Nature 406:847–848

A journal article with 3 authors

Dhara S, Mele EJ, Agarwal R (2015) APPLIED OPTICS. Voltage-tunable circular photogalvanic effect in silicon nanowires. Science 349:726–729

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Lin L, Zhu HX, Jiang XM, et al (2014) Coupled ferroelectric polarization and magnetization in spinel FeCr2S4. Sci Rep 4:6530

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Callahan KR, Stetz GS, Brooks LM (2011) Project Management Accounting. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Acuña ST, Juristo N (eds) (2005) Software Process Modeling. Springer US, Boston, MA

A chapter in an edited book

Cheilaris P, Gargano L, Rescigno AA, Smorodinsky S (2012) Strong Conflict-Free Coloring for Intervals. In: Chao K-M, Hsu T-S, Lee D-T (eds) Algorithms and Computation: 23rd International Symposium, ISAAC 2012, Taipei, Taiwan, December 19-21, 2012. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 4–13

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

Fang J (2015) Greater Sage-Grouse Will Not Be Listed As Endangered. Can A Land-Use Plan Protect Them? In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/greater-sage-grouse-will-not-be-listed-endangered-can-land-use-plan-protect-them/. 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 (2016) Air Traffic Control: Experts’ and Stakeholders’ Views on Key Issues to Consider in a Potential Restructuring [Reissued on December 9, 2016]. 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

Jones G (2009) The impact of song on repeated reading: An examination of comprehension, fluency, and engagement with texts of Hispanic second graders in a Title I urban school. 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

Vecsey G (2010) Some Northern Flair for a Pinstripe Affair. New York Times B15

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Dickersin 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Franklin and Axelsson 2000; Dickersin 2010).

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

Two authors: (Franklin and Axelsson 2000)
Three or more authors: (Lin et al. 2014)

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