How to format your references using the Aquatic Toxicology citation style

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

Andelman, S.J., 2011. Conservation science outside the comfort zone. Nature 475, 290–291.

A journal article with 2 authors

Lysenko, V., Varduny, T., 2013. Anthocyanin-dependent anoxygenic photosynthesis in coloured flower petals? Sci. Rep. 3, 3373.

A journal article with 3 authors

Sander, R., Crutzen, P.J., von Glasow, R., 2004. Comment on “Reactions at interfaces as a source of sulfate formation in sea-salt particles” (II). Science 303, 628; author reply 628.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Clark, E.A., Golub, T.R., Lander, E.S., Hynes, R.O., 2000. Genomic analysis of metastasis reveals an essential role for RhoC. Nature 406, 532–535.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Potter, L., 2012. The Life of William Shakespeare. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Agosti, M., Ferro, N., Peters, C., Rijke, M. de, Smeaton, A. (Eds.), 2010. Multilingual and Multimodal Information Access Evaluation: International Conference of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum, CLEF 2010, Padua, Italy, September 20-23, 2010. Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Hersh, R.G., Caligor, E., Yeomans, F.E., 2016. Transference-Focused Psychotherapy (TFP) Principles in Inpatient Psychiatry, in: Caligor, E., Yeomans, F.E. (Eds.), Fundamentals of Transference-Focused Psychotherapy: Applications in Psychiatric and Medical Settings. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 121–156.

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 Toxicology.

Blog post

Andrews, R., 2016. Newly Discovered Tarantula May Have A Terrifying Attack Method [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL (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, 1982. Can the Federal Communications Commission Successfully Implement Its Computer II Decision? (No. CED-82-38). 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

Avila, R., 2017. Support and Resources for Homeless Families: A Grant Proposal (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

Greenhouse, L., 2007. Supreme Court Constrains Judges’ Power in Sentencing. New York Times A15.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Andelman, 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Andelman, 2011; Lysenko and Varduny, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Lysenko and Varduny, 2013)
Three or more authors: (Clark et al., 2000)

About the journal

Full journal title	Aquatic Toxicology
Abbreviation	Aquat. Toxicol.
ISSN (print)	0166-445X
Scope	Aquatic Science Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis