How to format your references using the North American Journal of Aquaculture citation style

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

Savage, N. 2015. Synthetic coatings: Super surfaces. Nature 519(7544):S7-9.

A journal article with 2 authors

Arnaoutov, A., and M. Dasso. 2014. Enzyme regulation. IRBIT is a novel regulator of ribonucleotide reductase in higher eukaryotes. Science (New York, N.Y.) 345(6203):1512–1515.

A journal article with 3 authors

Pregibon, D. C., M. Toner, and P. S. Doyle. 2007. Multifunctional encoded particles for high-throughput biomolecule analysis. Science (New York, N.Y.) 315(5817):1393–1396.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Clarke, J. D., D. C. Alexander, D. P. Ward, J. A. Ryals, M. W. Mitchell, J. E. Wulff, and L. Guo. 2013. Assessment of genetically modified soybean in relation to natural variation in the soybean seed metabolome. Scientific reports 3:3082.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Natsuno, T. 2005. i-Mode Strategy. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Feng, C. 2016. China’s Changing Legal System: Lawyers & Judges on Civil & Criminal Law. Page L. P. Nelson and T. W. Simon, editors. Palgrave Macmillan US, New York, NY.

A chapter in an edited book

Gerein, N., A. Green, T. Mirzoev, and S. Pearson. 2009. Health System Impacts on Maternal and Child Health. Pages 83–97 in J. Ehiri, editor. Maternal and Child Health: Global Challenges, Programs, and Policies. Springer US, Boston, MA.

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 North American Journal of Aquaculture.

Blog post

Luntz, S. 2015, March 25. How Long Would It Take To Fall Through The Center Of The Earth? IFLScience.

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. 1998. Core Competencies in Financial Management for Information Technology Personnel Implementing Financial Systems in the Federal Government. U.S. Government Printing Office, JFMIP-ET-98-2, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Hilton, L. C. 2015. Case study on organic farming as a sustainable solution for African-American farmers. Doctoral dissertation, University of Phoenix, Phoenix, AZ.

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

Crow, K. 2001, April 22. Giving an Unexpected Twist to “Keep Off the Grass.” New York Times:148.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Savage 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Arnaoutov and Dasso 2014; Savage 2015).

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

Two authors: (Arnaoutov and Dasso 2014)
Three or more authors: (Clarke et al. 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	North American Journal of Aquaculture
Abbreviation	N. Am. J. Aquac.
ISSN (print)	1522-2055
ISSN (online)	1548-8454
Scope	Aquatic Science