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

Goldston D, 2009. Climate future. Nature 459:628.

A journal article with 2 authors

Saykally RJ, Wales DJ, 2012. Chemistry. Pinning down the water hexamer. Science 336:814–815.

A journal article with 3 authors

Dubi Y, Meir Y, Avishai Y, 2007. Nature of the superconductor-insulator transition in disordered superconductors. Nature 449:876–880.

A journal article with 13 or more authors

Lauterbach MA, Guillon M, Soltani A, Emiliani V, 2013. STED microscope with spiral phase contrast. Sci. Rep. 3:2050.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hanzo L, Maunder RG, Wang J, Yang L-L, 2010. Near-Capacity Variable-Length Coding. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.:

An edited book

Giannoudis PV, editor, 2012. Practical Procedures in Elective Orthopaedic Surgery: Pelvis and Lower Extremity. Springer, London: XVI, 321 p. 452 illus., 380 illus. in color pp.

A chapter in an edited book

Soergel W, 2012. Categories of Harish-Chandra Modules, p. 103–122 In: Joseph A, A Melnikov, and I Penkov (eds.), Highlights in Lie Algebraic Methods, Boston, MA: Birkhäuser.

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 E, 2015. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/shark-whisperer-joe-romeiro-gets-impressively-close-hammerhead-sharks/. 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, 2003.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Reid LN, 2012.

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

Hubbard B, Gordon MR, 2017. New York Times.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Goldston, 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Goldston, 2009; Saykally and Wales, 2012).

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

Two authors: (Saykally and Wales, 2012)
Three or more authors: (Lauterbach et al., 2013)

About the journal

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