How to format your references using the Journal of Freshwater Ecology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Freshwater Ecology. 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

Heinrich CA. 2006. Geochemistry. How fast does gold trickle out of volcanoes? Science. 314(5797):263–264.

A journal article with 2 authors

Bradshaw WE, Holzapfel CM. 2006. Climate change. Evolutionary response to rapid climate change. Science. 312(5779):1477–1478.

A journal article with 3 authors

Gibbs KA, Urbanowski ML, Greenberg EP. 2008. Genetic determinants of self identity and social recognition in bacteria. Science. 321(5886):256–259.

A journal article with 12 or more authors

Smale DA, Brown KM, Barnes DKA, Fraser KPP, Clarke A. 2008. Ice scour disturbance in Antarctic waters. Science. 321(5887):371.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Henderson B, Dorsey J. 2008. Medical Terminology for Dummies®. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley Publishing, Inc.

An edited book

Brameier MF. 2007. Linear Genetic Programming. Banzhaf W, editor. Boston, MA: Springer US.

A chapter in an edited book

Li J, Huang W. 2014. The EMMS Principle in Virtual Process Engineering. In: Huang W, editor. Towards Mesoscience: The Principle of Compromise in Competition. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; p. 45–49.

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 Freshwater Ecology.

Blog post

Andrew D. 2016. Gawker Had Its Problems, But Its Death Is Worrying For All Watchdog Journalist. IFLScience [Internet]. [accessed 2018 Oct 30]. https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/gawker-had-its-problems-but-its-death-is-worrying-for-all-watchdog-journalist/

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. 1986. Computer Buys: Air Force Logistics Modernization Program Should Comply With Brooks Act. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Urquidi AJ. 2015. Condolences to all of you: Late eulogies of a half-complacent birthday boy [Doctoral dissertation]. Long Beach, CA: 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

Wines M. 2017. Voter Fraud Panel Leads to Friction. New York Times.:A15.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Heinrich 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Bradshaw and Holzapfel 2006; Heinrich 2006).

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

Two authors: (Bradshaw and Holzapfel 2006)
Three or more authors: (Smale et al. 2008)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Freshwater Ecology
Abbreviation	J. Freshw. Ecol.
ISSN (print)	0270-5060
ISSN (online)	2156-6941
Scope	Aquatic Science Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics