How to format your references using the Frontiers in Aquatic Physiology citation style

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

Pyne, S. J. (2001). Essays on science and society. The fires this time, and next. Science 294, 1005–1006.

A journal article with 2 authors

Callan, B., and Gillespie, I. (2007). The path to new medicines. Nature 449, 164–165.

A journal article with 3 authors

Zhang, Z.-Y., Sun, K.-D., and Wang, S.-Q. (2013). Enhanced community structure detection in complex networks with partial background information. Sci. Rep. 3, 3241.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Hu, X., Boccaletti, S., Huang, W., Zhang, X., Liu, Z., Guan, S., et al. (2014). Exact solution for first-order synchronization transition in a generalized Kuramoto model. Sci. Rep. 4, 7262.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Karlson, B., Bria, A., Lind, J., Lönnqvist, P., and Norlin, C. (2005). Wireless Foresight. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Béchet, D., and Dikovsky, A. eds. (2012). Logical Aspects of Computational Linguistics: 7th International Conference, LACL 2012, Nantes, France, July 2-4, 2012. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Coenen, C. (2010). “Deliberating Visions: The Case of Human Enhancement in the Discourse on Nanotechnology and Convergence,” in Governing Future Technologies: Nanotechnology and the Rise of an Assessment Regime, eds. M. Kaiser, M. Kurath, S. Maasen, and C. Rehmann-Sutter (Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands), 73–87.

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 Frontiers in Aquatic Physiology.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015). Every Hour You Spend In Front Of A Screen Is Linked To Poorer Exam Results. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/every-hour-you-spend-front-screen-linked-poorer-exam-results/ (Accessed October 30, 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 (2002). School Meal Programs: Estimated Costs for Three Administrative Processes at Selected Locations. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Hintz, L. (2015). Fighting for Us, Inside and Out: National Identity Contestation and Foreign Policy in Turkey. Washington, DC: George Washington University.

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

Barnes, B., and Cieply, M. (2015). Gettys Again Made to Cope With Grief in Public Eye. 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 (Pyne, 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Pyne, 2001; Callan and Gillespie, 2007).

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

Two authors: (Callan and Gillespie, 2007)
Three or more authors: (Hu et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Frontiers in Aquatic Physiology
Abbreviation	Front. Physiol.
ISSN (online)	1664-042X
Scope	Physiology Physiology (medical)