How to format your references using the Sexuality and Early Development in Aquatic Organisms citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Sexuality and Early Development in Aquatic Organisms. 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

Wine JJ (2014) Medicine. Letting go of mucus. Science 345:730–731.

A journal article with 2 authors

Pitt JN, Ferré-D’Amaré AR (2010) Rapid construction of empirical RNA fitness landscapes. Science 330:376–379.

A journal article with 3 authors

Takayanagi M, Kurisaki I, Nagaoka M (2014) Non-site-specific allosteric effect of oxygen on human hemoglobin under high oxygen partial pressure. Sci Rep 4:4601.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Siegert F, Ruecker G, Hinrichs A, Hoffmann AA (2001) Increased damage from fires in logged forests during droughts caused by El Niño. Nature 414:437–440.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Dunnivant FM (2004) Environmental Laboratory Exercises for Instrumental Analysis and Environmental Chemistry. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Aigner KR, Stephens FO (eds) (2016) Induction Chemotherapy: Systemic and Locoregional, 2nd ed. 2016. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Schmidt J-M, Plos T, Kirschbaum M, Hutter M, Medwed M, Herbst C (2010) Side-Channel Leakage across Borders. In: Smart Card Research and Advanced Application: 9th IFIP WG 8.8/11.2 International Conference, CARDIS 2010, Passau, Germany, April 14-16, 2010. Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Gollmann D, Lanet J-L, Iguchi-Cartigny J (eds) Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, p 36–48

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 Sexuality and Early Development in Aquatic Organisms.

Blog post

Andrews R (2016) Study Suggests Free Will Is An Illusion. (accessed 30 October 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 (1982) Army’s Contracting Out of Laundry and Educational Testing Services at Fort Carson, Colorado. 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

Dennard B (2017) The Impact of Racial Centrality on Authenticity and the Race-Based Impression Management Strategies of Black Management Consultants. Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University, Washington, DC

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

Romero S (2013) Rebels Delay Peace Talks In Colombia. New York Times:A7.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Wine 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Pitt & Ferré-D’Amaré 2010, Wine 2014).

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

Two authors: (Pitt & Ferré-D’Amaré 2010)
Three authors: (Takayanagi et al. 2014)
99 or more authors: (Siegert et al. 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	Sexuality and Early Development in Aquatic Organisms
ISSN (print)	2195-2736
ISSN (online)	2195-2744
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