How to format your references using the Diseases of Aquatic Organisms citation style

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

Alberts B (2003) DNA replication and recombination. Nature 421:431–435.

A journal article with 2 authors

Poulet JFA, Hedwig B (2002) A corollary discharge maintains auditory sensitivity during sound production. Nature 418:872–876.

A journal article with 3 authors

Nakada D, Saunders TL, Morrison SJ (2010) Lkb1 regulates cell cycle and energy metabolism in haematopoietic stem cells. Nature 468:653–658.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Neetu S, Suresh I, Shankar R, Shankar D, Shenoi SSC, Shetye SR, Sundar D, Nagarajan B (2005) Comment on ‘The great Sumatra-Andaman earthquake of 26 December 2004’. Science 310:1431; author reply 1431.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Rabe JL, Martorana RJ (2014) Alts Democratized. John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Di Marino V (2016) The Amygdaloid Nuclear Complex: Anatomic Study of the Human Amygdala, 1st ed. 2016. Etienne Y, Niddam M (eds) Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Inthorn J (2013) Medical Ethics, Fuzzy Logic and Shared Decision Making. In: Fuzziness and Medicine: Philosophical Reflections and Application Systems in Health Care: A Companion Volume to Sadegh-Zadeh’s Handbook of Analytical Philosophy of Medicine. Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing, Seising R, Tabacchi ME (eds) Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, p 85–95

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 Diseases of Aquatic Organisms.

Blog post

Carpineti A (2017) Comets’ Water Signature Might Change As They Orbit The Sun. https://www.iflscience.com/space/comets-water-signature-might-change-as-they-orbit-the-sun/ (accessed 30 October 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 (1993) SEC: EDGAR Dissemination Update. 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

Pincolini R (2017) Latchkey girls. 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

Vecsey G (2011) Once a Fill-In Keeper, Now a Winning Scorer. New York Times:D1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Alberts 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Poulet & Hedwig 2002, Alberts 2003).

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

Two authors: (Poulet & Hedwig 2002)
Three authors: (Nakada et al. 2010)
99 or more authors: (Neetu et al. 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	Diseases of Aquatic Organisms
Abbreviation	Dis. Aquat. Organ.
ISSN (print)	0177-5103
ISSN (online)	1616-1580
Scope	Aquatic Science Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics