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

Maddox, B. 2003. The double helix and the “wronged heroine.” Nature 421(6921):407–408.

A journal article with 2 authors

Mogilner, A., and G. Oster. 2003. Cell biology. Shrinking gels pull cells. Science (New York, N.Y.) 302(5649):1340–1341.

A journal article with 3 authors

Philips, J. A., E. J. Rubin, and N. Perrimon. 2005. Drosophila RNAi screen reveals CD36 family member required for mycobacterial infection. Science (New York, N.Y.) 309(5738):1251–1253.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Won, J., M. Kim, Y.-W. Yi, Y. H. Kim, N. Jung, and T. K. Kim. 2005. A magnetic nanoprobe technology for detecting molecular interactions in live cells. Science (New York, N.Y.) 309(5731):121–125.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

English, J. F. 2012. The Global Future of English Studies. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Di Giuseppe, A., and M. A. Shiffman, editors. 2016. Aesthetic Plastic Surgery of the Abdomen. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Strobel, M., and V. Gengenbach. 2007. HDR Video Cameras. Pages 73–97 in B. Hoefflinger, editor. High-Dynamic-Range (HDR) Vision. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

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

Andrews, R. 2016, October 20. A Supervolcano Stopped An Earthquake Dead In Its Tracks In Japan This Year. 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. 2011. Surface Freight Transportation: A Comparison of the Costs of Road, Rail, and Waterways Freight Shipments That Are Not Passed on to Consumers. U.S. Government Printing Office, GAO-11-134, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Kluck, M. C. 2017. You are What You Read: Participation and Emancipation Problematized in Habacuc’s “Exposición #1.” 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

Wakabayashi, D., and M. Corkery. 2017, August 23. Walmart And Google Partner, Eyes On Amazon. New York Times:B1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Maddox 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Maddox 2003; Mogilner and Oster 2003).

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

Two authors: (Mogilner and Oster 2003)
Three or more authors: (Won et al. 2005)

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