How to format your references using the Journal of Limnology citation style

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

Blow N, 2007. Antibodies: antibodies in the fast lane. Nature 447:743.

A journal article with 2 authors

Dijk D-J, Skeldon AC, 2015. Biological rhythms: Human sleep before the industrial era. Nature 527:176–177.

A journal article with 3 authors

Ma J-B, Ye K, Patel DJ, 2004. Structural basis for overhang-specific small interfering RNA recognition by the PAZ domain. Nature 429:318–322.

A journal article with 13 or more authors

Wijnands R, Van Der Klis M, Homan J, Chakrabarty D, Markwardt CB, Morgan EH, 2003. Quasi-periodic X-ray brightness fluctuations in an accreting millisecond pulsar. Nature 424:44–47.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Pagliaro LA, Pagliaro AM, 2011. Handbook of Child and Adolescent Drug and Substance Abuse. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.:

An edited book

Seeling P, 2007. Video Traces for Network Performance Evaluation: A Comprehensive Overview and Guide on Video Traces and Their Utilization in Networking Research. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht: X, 272 p pp.

A chapter in an edited book

McIntyre NE, Knowles-Yánez K, Hope D, 2008. Urban Ecology as an Interdisciplinary Field: Differences in the use of “Urban” Between the Social and Natural Sciences, p. 49–65 In: Marzluff JM, E Shulenberger, W Endlicher, M Alberti, G Bradley, C Ryan, U Simon, and C ZumBrunnen (eds.), Urban Ecology: An International Perspective on the Interaction Between Humans and Nature, Boston, MA: Springer US.

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 Limnology.

Blog post

Andrew D, 2016. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/gut-feeling-how-your-microbiota-affects-your-mood-sleep-and-stress-levels/. Accessed October 30, 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, 2006.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Denney VP, 2014.

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

Chapman MM, 2014. New York Times.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Blow, 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Blow, 2007; Dijk and Skeldon, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Dijk and Skeldon, 2015)
Three or more authors: (Wijnands et al., 2003)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Limnology
Abbreviation	J. Limnol.
ISSN (online)	1723-8633
Scope	Aquatic Science Ecology Water Science and Technology