How to format your references using the Journal of Aquatic Animal Health citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Aquatic Animal Health. 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

Hede, K. 2013. Emergency medicine: The need for speed. Nature 503(7475):S14-5.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kim, W.-Y., and W. D. Snider. 2008. Neuroscience. Overcoming inhibitions. Science (New York, N.Y.) 322(5903):869–872.

A journal article with 3 authors

Solov’yov, I. A., T. Domratcheva, and K. Schulten. 2014. Separation of photo-induced radical pair in cryptochrome to a functionally critical distance. Scientific reports 4:3845.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Hosie, A. M., M. E. Wilkins, H. M. A. da Silva, and T. G. Smart. 2006. Endogenous neurosteroids regulate GABAA receptors through two discrete transmembrane sites. Nature 444(7118):486–489.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bayés de Luna, A. 2011. Clinical Arrhythmology. Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK.

An edited book

Verhoeven, J. T. A., B. Beltman, R. Bobbink, and D. F. Whigham, editors. 2006. Wetlands and Natural Resource Management. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Hoffstein, J., J. Pipher, and J. H. Silverman. 2014. Combinatorics, Probability, and Information Theory. Pages 207–298 in J. Pipher and J. H. Silverman, editors. An Introduction to Mathematical Cryptography. Springer, New York, NY.

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 Journal of Aquatic Animal Health.

Blog post

Andrew, E. 2014, May 20. These Virtual Reality Headsets Make Farmed Chickens Believe They Roam Free. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/these-virtual-reality-headsets-make-farmed-chickens-believe-they-roam-free/.

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. 2016. Transportation Security: Status of GAO Recommendations on TSA’s Security-Related Technology Acquisitions. U.S. Government Printing Office, GAO-16-176, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Ismail, A.-R. 2009. Assessing the relationship between the Internet, radio frequency identifier (RFID), and information technology (IT) flexibility: A correlational study and findings. Doctoral dissertation, Capella University, Minneapolis, MN.

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

Rothenberg, B. 2017, June 2. A Big Step for a Tunisian, and for Arab Countries. New York Times:B9.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Hede 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Kim and Snider 2008; Hede 2013).

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

Two authors: (Kim and Snider 2008)
Three or more authors: (Hosie et al. 2006)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Aquatic Animal Health
Abbreviation	J. Aquat. Anim. Health
ISSN (print)	0899-7659
ISSN (online)	1548-8667
Scope	Aquatic Science