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

Power, P. P. (2010). Main-group elements as transition metals. Nature 463, 171–177.

A journal article with 2 authors

Fujiwara, M., and Caswell, H. (2001). Demography of the endangered North Atlantic right whale. Nature 414, 537–541.

A journal article with 3 authors

Brohawn, S. G., del Mármol, J., and MacKinnon, R. (2012). Crystal structure of the human K2P TRAAK, a lipid- and mechano-sensitive K+ ion channel. Science 335, 436–441.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Jiang, H., Xu, L., Wang, Z., Keene, J., and Gu, Z. (2014). Coordinating expression of RNA binding proteins with their mRNA targets. Sci. Rep. 4, 7175.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

King, M. (2011). Process Control. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Rizvi, N. B. (2014). Minerals and Lipids Profiles in Cardiovascular Disorders in South Asia: Cu, Mg, Se, Zn and Lipid Serum Profiles for the Example of Patients in Pakistan. , ed. S. A. Nagra Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Kowada, L. A. B., de A. Hausen, R., and de Figueiredo, C. M. H. (2010). “Bounds on the Transposition Distance for Lonely Permutations,” in Advances in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology: 5th Brazilian Symposium on Bioinformatics, BSB 2010, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, August 31-September 3, 2010. Proceedings Lecture Notes in Computer Science., eds. C. E. Ferreira, S. Miyano, and P. F. Stadler (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer), 35–46.

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

Luntz, S. (2014). Hawking Radiation Recreated In A Laboratory. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/physics/laboratory-made-hawking-radiation/ [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 (1995). Amtrak: Deteriorated Financial and Operating Conditions. 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

Rholdon, C. M. (2012). Analyzing Leadership Practices of Enrollment Management at Fletcher Technical Community College.

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

Kishkovsky, S. (2005). A Choreographer Vanishes In Murky Russian Mystery. New York Times, E1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Power, 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Fujiwara and Caswell, 2001; Power, 2010).

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

Two authors: (Fujiwara and Caswell, 2001)
Three or more authors: (Jiang et al., 2014)

About the journal

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

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