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

Jimenez-Sanchez G (2003) Developing a platform for genomic medicine in Mexico. Science 300:295–296.

A journal article with 2 authors

Schadt CW, Rosling A (2015) FUNGAL BIOGEOGRAPHY. Comment on ‘Global diversity and geography of soil fungi’. Science 348:1438.

A journal article with 3 authors

Sakakura A, Ukai A, Ishihara K (2007) Enantioselective halocyclization of polyprenoids induced by nucleophilic phosphoramidites. Nature 445:900–903.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Mandelboim O, Lieberman N, Lev M, Paul L, Arnon TI, Bushkin Y, Davis DM, Strominger JL, Yewdell JW, Porgador A (2001) Recognition of haemagglutinins on virus-infected cells by NKp46 activates lysis by human NK cells. Nature 409:1055–1060.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bamfield P (2006) Research and Development in the Chemical and Pharmaceutical Industry. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, FRG.

An edited book

Sagot M-F, Walter MEMT (eds) (2007) Advances in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology: Second Brazilian Symposium on Bioinformatics, BSB 2007, Angra dos Reis, Brazil, August 29-31, 2007. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Vazquez R, Krstic M (2008) 2D Navier–Stokes Channel Flow: Boundary Estimation. In: Control of Turbulent and Magnetohydrodynamic Channel Flows: Boundary Stabilization and State Estimation. Systems&Control: Foundations&Applications, Krstic M (ed) Birkhäuser, Boston, MA, p 103–114

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) Coffee Lovers Beware: Climate Change May Affect Your Brew. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/coffee-lovers-beware-climate-change-may-affect-your-brew/ (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 (1990) Comments on Department of Education Use of Subsequent-Year Appropriations. 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

Weir B (2010) The transfer of momentum from waves to currents due to wave breaking. Doctoral dissertation, University of Arizona, Tucson, 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

Kleinfield NR, Oppel RA Jr, Eddy M (2016) Moment in Convention Glare Stirs Parents’ American Life. New York Times:A1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Jimenez-Sanchez 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Jimenez-Sanchez 2003, Schadt & Rosling 2015).

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

Two authors: (Schadt & Rosling 2015)
Three authors: (Sakakura et al. 2007)
99 or more authors: (Mandelboim et al. 2001)

About the journal

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

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