How to format your references using the Hydrobiologia citation style

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

Grayson, M., 2013. Agriculture and drought. Nature 501: S1.

A journal article with 2 authors

Ketov, S. V., & D. V. Louzguine-Luzgin, 2013. Localized shear deformation and softening of bulk metallic glass: stress or temperature driven? Scientific reports 3: 2798.

A journal article with 3 authors

Vilan, A., A. Shanzer, & D. Cahen, 2000. Molecular control over Au/GaAs diodes. Nature 404: 166–168.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Farrell, S. A., N. A. Webb, D. Barret, O. Godet, & J. M. Rodrigues, 2009. An intermediate-mass black hole of over 500 solar masses in the galaxy ESO 243-49. Nature 460: 73–75.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Southard, T. E., S. D. Marshall, & L. L. Bonner, 2015. Orthodontics in the Vertical Dimension. John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Andrews, N., N. E. Khalema, & N. T. Assié-Lumumba (eds), 2015. Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in Retrospect: Africa’s Development Beyond 2015. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Li, G., X.-A. Zhang, H. Wang, X. Wang, C.-L. Meng, C.-Y. Chan, D. T. W. Yew, K. S. Tsang, K. Li, S.-N. Tsai, S.-M. Ngai, Z. C. Han, M. C.-M. Lin, M.-L. He, & H.-F. Kung, 2012. Comparative Proteomic Analysis of Mesenchymal Stem Cells Derived from Human Bone Marrow, Umbilical Cord and Placenta: Implication in the Migration. In Rhim, J. S., & R. Kremer (eds) Human Cell Transformation: Role of Stem Cells and the Microenvironment. Springer, New York, NY. pp. 51–68.

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 Hydrobiologia.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2014. HIV Undetectable In Two Patients Following Cancer Treatment. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/hiv-undetectable-two-patients-following-cancer-treatment/.

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, 2010. For-Profit Schools: Large Schools and Schools that Specialize in Healthcare Are More Likely to Rely Heavily on Federal Student Aid. 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

Hester, E. T., 2008. Impact of geomorphic structures on hyporheic exchange, temperature, and ecological processes in streams. Doctoral dissertation, University of North Carolina.

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

Burghardt, L. F., 2007. For Police Recruits, Training in Tolerance. , New York Times, 1 July, page LI11.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Grayson, 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Grayson, 2013; Ketov & Louzguine-Luzgin, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Ketov & Louzguine-Luzgin, 2013)
Three or more authors: (Farrell et al., 2009)

About the journal

Full journal title	Hydrobiologia
Abbreviation	Hydrobiologia
ISSN (print)	0018-8158
ISSN (online)	1573-5117
Scope	Aquatic Science General Environmental Science Pollution