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

Watzman H (2003) German researchers set to receive Israeli stem-cell shipment. Nature 421:199.

A journal article with 2 authors

Levitan DR, Ferrell DL (2006) Selection on gamete recognition proteins depends on sex, density, and genotype frequency. Science 312:267–269.

A journal article with 3 authors

Xiao S, Zhou C, Yuan X (2007) Palaeontology: undressing and redressing Ediacaran embryos. Nature 446:E9-10; discussion E10-1.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Zhang T, Qian G, Wang Y-Y, Xue X-J, Shan F, Li R-Z, Wu J-Y, Zhang X-Y (2014) Integrated optical gyroscope using active long-range surface plasmon-polariton waveguide resonator. Sci Rep 4:3855.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Pratt TH (2010) Electrostatic Ignitions of Fires and Explosions. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Palsberg J, Su Z (eds) (2009) Static Analysis: 16th International Symposium, SAS 2009, Los Angeles, CA, USA, August 9-11, 2009. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Chaimontree S, Atkinson K, Coenen F (2010) Best Clustering Configuration Metrics: Towards Multiagent Based Clustering. In: Advanced Data Mining and Applications: 6th International Conference, ADMA 2010, Chongqing, China, November 19-21, 2010, Proceedings, Part I. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Cao L, Feng Y, Zhong J (eds) Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, p 48–59

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

Andrews R (2017) A Continental-Sized Volcanic Eruption Caused Snowball Earth. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/continentalsized-volcanic-eruption-snowball-earth/ (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 (1986) Digests of Unpublished Decisions of the Comptroller General of the United States, Vol. III, No. 2. 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

Ward VJ (2015) A study of the perceptions of first-year teachers as prepared classroom teachers. Doctoral dissertation, Lindenwood University, St. Charles, MO

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

Schwartz J (2016) Climate Deal Called Too Weak to Meet Goals. New York Times:A12.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Watzman 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Watzman 2003, Levitan & Ferrell 2006).

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

Two authors: (Levitan & Ferrell 2006)
Three authors: (Xiao et al. 2007)
99 or more authors: (Zhang et al. 2014)

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