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

Rubin, M. A., 2015. Health: Make precision medicine work for cancer care. Nature 520: 290–291.

A journal article with 2 authors

Gittis, A. H., & D. J. Brasier, 2015. NEUROSCIENCE. Astrocytes tell neurons when to listen up. Science (New York, N.Y.) 349: 690–691.

A journal article with 3 authors

Babbush, R., P. J. Love, & A. Aspuru-Guzik, 2014. Adiabatic quantum simulation of quantum chemistry. Scientific reports 4: 6603.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Stern, D., P. Eisenhardt, H. Spinrad, S. Dawson, W. van Breugel, A. Dey, W. de Vries, & S. A. Stanford, 2000. Evidence against a redshift z > 6 for the galaxy STIS123627+621755. Nature 408: 560–562.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Center for Chemical Process Safety, 2013. Guidelines for Managing Process Safety Risks During Organizational Change. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Esposito, A., A. Vinciarelli, K. Vicsi, C. Pelachaud, & A. Nijholt (eds), 2011. Analysis of Verbal and Nonverbal Communication and Enactment. The Processing Issues: COST 2102 International Conference, Budapest, Hungary, September 7-10, 2010, Revised Selected Papers. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Kulikowski, J. L., M. Przytulska, & D. Wierzbicka, 2008. Biomedical Structures Representation by Morphological Spectra In Pietka, E., & J. Kawa (eds), Information Technologies in Biomedicine. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg: 57–65.

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., 2015. Enzyme System Helps Boost Exercise Tolerance. IFLScience. IFLScience, https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/enzyme-system-helps-boost-exercise-tolerance/.

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, 2000. Chief Information Officers: Implementing Effective CIO Organizations. 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

Konzem, S. R., 2017. Tenability and Computability of Generalized Pólya Urns. Doctoral dissertation, 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

Grimes, W., 2015. Eldar Ryazanov, 88, Dies; Famed Russian Director Was a Master of Satire. New York Times. , 1 December, page B14.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Rubin, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Gittis & Brasier, 2015; Rubin, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Gittis & Brasier, 2015)
Three or more authors: (Stern et al., 2000)

About the journal

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