How to format your references using the Limnologica citation style

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

Van Dyk, S.D., 2003. Astronomy. Elusive supernova progenitors. Science 302, 1161–1162.

A journal article with 2 authors

Neale, M.J., Keeney, S., 2006. Clarifying the mechanics of DNA strand exchange in meiotic recombination. Nature 442, 153–158.

A journal article with 3 authors

Chen, L., Dürr, K.L., Gouaux, E., 2014. X-ray structures of AMPA receptor-cone snail toxin complexes illuminate activation mechanism. Science 345, 1021–1026.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Kieffer, S.W., Lu, X., Bethke, C.M., Spencer, J.R., Marshak, S., Navrotsky, A., 2006. A clathrate reservoir hypothesis for Enceladus’ south polar plume. Science 314, 1764–1766.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Mamishev, A., Williams, S., 2010. Technical Writing for Teams. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Hart, S.R., 2014. Identifying, Assessing, and Treating Bipolar Disorder at School, Developmental Psychopathology at School. Springer US, Boston, MA.

A chapter in an edited book

Kerr, K.M., 2012. The Classification of Pre-invasive Lesions, in: Cagle, P.T., Allen, T.C., Beasley, M.B., Chirieac, L.R., Dacic, S., Borczuk, A.C., Kerr, K.M. (Eds.), Molecular Pathology of Lung Cancer, Molecular Pathology Library. Springer, New York, NY, pp. 35–52.

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 Limnologica.

Blog post

Hamilton, K., 2014. Could Telepathy Exist In Real Life? [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 2016. Commercial Space Launch Insurance: Views Differ on Need for Change to Insurance Approach but Clarification Is Needed (No. GAO-17-88). U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Rodriguez, D., 2017. Numerical Simulation of a Flowfield Around a Hypersonic Missile with Lateral Jets (Doctoral dissertation). Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL.

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

Otis, J., 2016. Cancer Patient Is Hoping to Get Back to the Kitchen. New York Times A18.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Van Dyk, 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Neale and Keeney, 2006; Van Dyk, 2003).

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

Two authors: (Neale and Keeney, 2006)
Three or more authors: (Kieffer et al., 2006)

About the journal

Full journal title	Limnologica
Abbreviation	Limnologica
ISSN (print)	0075-9511
Scope	Aquatic Science