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

Buckingham, S., 2003. Bioinformatics: programmed for success. Nature 425, 209–215.

A journal article with 2 authors

Vallina, S.M., Simó, R., 2007. Strong relationship between DMS and the solar radiation dose over the global surface ocean. Science 315, 506–508.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kearns, M., Suri, S., Montfort, N., 2006. An experimental study of the coloring problem on human subject networks. Science 313, 824–827.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Ameur, A., Meiring, T.L., Bunikis, I., Häggqvist, S., Lindau, C., Lindberg, J.H., Gustavsson, I., Mbulawa, Z.Z.A., Williamson, A.-L., Gyllensten, U., 2014. Comprehensive profiling of the vaginal microbiome in HIV positive women using massive parallel semiconductor sequencing. Sci. Rep. 4, 4398.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Calloway, J., 2009. Becoming a Category of One. Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Terabe, M., Berzofsky, J.A. (Eds.), 2012. Natural Killer T cells: Balancing the Regulation of Tumor Immunity, 1st ed, Cancer Drug Discovery and Development. Springer, New York, NY.

A chapter in an edited book

Grant, D.N., Padilla, D., Greening, P.D., 2011. Orientation Dependence of Earthquake Ground Motion and Structural Response, in: Dolšek, M. (Ed.), Protection of Built Environment Against Earthquakes. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp. 57–73.

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

Andrew, E., 2015. Seven Teeny Tiny Species Of Frog Discovered In Brazil [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/seven-teeny-tiny-frog-species-discovered-brazil-aaaaaw/ (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, 2005. Information Technology: Customs Automated Commercial Environment Program Progressing, but Need for Management Improvements Continues (No. GAO-05-267). 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

Gerhart, T., 2013. Convex optimization techniques and their application in hyperspectral video processing (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, 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

Leland, J., 2017. The City Awakens. New York Times MB7.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Buckingham, 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Buckingham, 2003; Vallina and Simó, 2007).

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

Two authors: (Vallina and Simó, 2007)
Three or more authors: (Ameur et al., 2014)

About the journal

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