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

Haberland, H. 2013. Looking from both sides. Nature 494(7435):E1-2.

A journal article with 2 authors

Katoh, H., and M. Negishi. 2003. RhoG activates Rac1 by direct interaction with the Dock180-binding protein Elmo. Nature 424(6947):461–464.

A journal article with 3 authors

Thammavongsa, V., D. M. Missiakas, and O. Schneewind. 2013. Staphylococcus aureus degrades neutrophil extracellular traps to promote immune cell death. Science (New York, N.Y.) 342(6160):863–866.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Sánchez-Lavega, A., T. del Río-Gaztelurrutia, R. Hueso, J. M. Gómez-Forrellad, J. F. Sanz-Requena, J. Legarreta, E. García-Melendo, F. Colas, J. Lecacheux, L. N. Fletcher, D. Barrado-Navascués, D. Parker, and International Outer Planet Watch Team. 2011. Deep winds beneath Saturn’s upper clouds from a seasonal long-lived planetary-scale storm. Nature 475(7354):71–74.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Dayton, G. 2014. Trade Mindfully. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Nickels, T. B., editor. 2010. IUTAM Symposium on The Physics of Wall-Bounded Turbulent Flows on Rough Walls: Proceedings of the IUTAM Symposium on The Physics of Wall-Bounded Turbulent Flows on Rough Walls, held Cambridge, UK, July 7-9, 2009. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht.

A chapter in an edited book

Ueno, K., Y. Fukasawa, A. Morihata, and A. Ohori. 2014. The Essence of Ruby. Pages 78–98 in J. Garrigue, editor. Programming Languages and Systems: 12th Asian Symposium, APLAS 2014, Singapore, Singapore, November 17-19, 2014, Proceedings. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

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

Hale, T. 2016, September 14. Diego The Giant Tortoise Helps Save His Species By Fathering 800 Offspring. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/diego-the-giant-tortoise-helps-save-his-species-by-fathering-800-offspring/.

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. 1994. Weather Forecasting: Improvements Needed in Laboratory Software Development Processes. U.S. Government Printing Office, AIMD-95-24, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Zhang, Y. 2017. A Grant Proposal for Mindfulness-Based Self-Care Training for Child Welfare Workers. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Kanter, J., A. E. Kramer, and S. Reed. 2017, March 13. Gazprom Makes Concessions to E.U., Defusing an Antitrust Standoff. New York Times:B4.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Haberland 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Katoh and Negishi 2003; Haberland 2013).

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

Two authors: (Katoh and Negishi 2003)
Three or more authors: (Sánchez-Lavega et al. 2011)

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