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

Polak T (2015) Help others--and help your career. Science 350:246.

A journal article with 2 authors

Ives AR, Whitlock MC (2002) Ecology. Inbreeding and metapopulations. Science 295:454–455.

A journal article with 3 authors

Branco T, Clark BA, Häusser M (2010) Dendritic discrimination of temporal input sequences in cortical neurons. Science 329:1671–1675.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Ong LL, Hanikel N, Yaghi OK, Grun C, Strauss MT, Bron P, Lai-Kee-Him J, Schueder F, Wang B, Wang P, Kishi JY, Myhrvold C, Zhu A, Jungmann R, Bellot G, Ke Y, Yin P (2017) Programmable self-assembly of three-dimensional nanostructures from 10,000 unique components. Nature 552:72–77.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Geman H (2015) Agricultural Finance. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Khan NA (ed) (2006) Ethylene Action in Plants. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Chen C, Dong D (2008) Quantum Intelligent Mobile System. In: Quantum Inspired Intelligent Systems. Studies in Computational Intelligence, Nedjah N, Coelho L dos S, Mourelle L de M (eds) Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, p 77–102

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

Andrew E (2015) Greedy Galaxy is Getting Bigger. https://www.iflscience.com/space/greedy-galaxy/ (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 (1996) Private Management of Public Schools: Early Experiences in Four School Districts. 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

Vu MH (2010) Efficiency of pair-wise and multiple alignment algorithms in computational biology. 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

Lehman S (2016) The Big Try-On. New York Times:F4.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Polak 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Ives & Whitlock 2002, Polak 2015).

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

Two authors: (Ives & Whitlock 2002)
Three or more authors: (Ong et al. 2017)

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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