How to format your references using the International Aquatic Research citation style

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

Zwier TS (2004) Chemistry. The structure of protonated water clusters. Science 304:1119–1120

A journal article with 2 authors

Bilham R, Gaur V (2013) Geophysics. Buildings as weapons of mass destruction. Science 341:618–619

A journal article with 3 authors

Hollenstein K, Frei DC, Locher KP (2007) Structure of an ABC transporter in complex with its binding protein. Nature 446:213–216

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Headrick JM, Diken EG, Walters RS, et al (2005) Spectral signatures of hydrated proton vibrations in water clusters. Science 308:1765–1769

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Silva Elipe MV (2011) LC-NMR and Other Hyphenated NMR Techniques. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Duindam V (2009) Modeling and Control of Complex Physical Systems: The Port-Hamiltonian Approach. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Garner G (2013) Trends and Issues: The Consumption and Sustainability of Digital Media in the Modern Global Economy. In: Orey M, Jones SA, Branch RM (eds) Educational Media and Technology Yearbook: Volume 37. Springer, New York, NY, pp 45–54

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 International Aquatic Research.

Blog post

Davis J (2016) New “Hobbit” Fossils On Flores Hint At Varied Human Evolution. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/new-hobbit-fossils-on-flores-hint-at-varied-human-evolution/. Accessed 30 Oct 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 (1980) Entitlement to the Transportation of Dependents. 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

Kalavacherla RS (2017) DFT study of the improved performance of oxygen reduction reaction on gold-copper alloy in a PEM fuel cell. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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

Wagner J (2016) Defense, Though Hard to Gauge, Gives Cubs a Clear Edge. New York Times B10

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Zwier 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Zwier 2004; Bilham and Gaur 2013).

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

Two authors: (Bilham and Gaur 2013)
Three or more authors: (Headrick et al. 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	International Aquatic Research
Abbreviation	Int. Aquat. Res.
ISSN (print)	2008-4935
ISSN (online)	2008-6970
Scope	Aquatic Science