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

Stöhr, K. 2010. Vaccinate before the next pandemic? Nature 465(7295):161.

A journal article with 2 authors

Bengtson, S., and G. Budd. 2004. Comment on “Small bilaterian fossils from 40 to 55 million years before the Cambrian.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 306(5700):1291; author reply 1291.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bielawski, C. W., D. Benitez, and R. H. Grubbs. 2002. An “endless” route to cyclic polymers. Science (New York, N.Y.) 297(5589):2041–2044.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Young, E. D., J. I. Simon, A. Galy, S. S. Russell, E. Tonui, and O. Lovera. 2005. Supra-canonical 26Al/27Al and the residence time of CAIs in the solar protoplanetary disk. Science (New York, N.Y.) 308(5719):223–227.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Larkin, R. F., and M. DiTommaso. 2015. Wiley Not-for-Profit GAAP 2015. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Minati, G., M. R. Abram, and E. Pessa, editors. 2016. Towards a Post-Bertalanffy Systemics1st ed. 2016. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Cîndea, N., and M. Tucsnak. 2009. Fast and Strongly Localized Observation for a perturbed Plate Equation. Pages 73–83 in K. Kunisch, J. Sprekels, G. Leugering, and F. Tröltzsch, editors. Optimal Control of Coupled Systems of Partial Differential Equations. Birkhäuser, Basel.

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, January 22. Herschel detects that Ceres has large amounts of water. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/herschel-detects-ceres-has-large-amounts-water/.

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. 1989. Health Care: Children’s Medical Services Programs in 10 States. U.S. Government Printing Office, HRD-89-81, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Stockman, S. B. 2015. Daughters of Yahweh: Recovering the deep feminine from the Yahweh complex. Doctoral dissertation, Pacifica Graduate Institute, Carpinteria, 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

St. John Kelly, E. 1998, June 15. Media Talk; Dialing Sister Souljah at WLIB. New York Times:D8.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Stöhr 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Bengtson and Budd 2004; Stöhr 2010).

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

Two authors: (Bengtson and Budd 2004)
Three or more authors: (Young et al. 2005)

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