How to format your references using the Aquaculture citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for 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	Download the output style file
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and others	The style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Chen, J., 2001. Smithsonian closure plan under fire. Nature 410, 1011.

A journal article with 2 authors

Mitchell, C.E., Power, A.G., 2003. Release of invasive plants from fungal and viral pathogens. Nature 421, 625–627.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hua, W., Chung, J., Gelles, J., 2002. Distinguishing inchworm and hand-over-hand processive kinesin movement by neck rotation measurements. Science 295, 844–848.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Behar, D.M., Yunusbayev, B., Metspalu, M., Metspalu, E., Rosset, S., Parik, J., Rootsi, S., Chaubey, G., Kutuev, I., Yudkovsky, G., Khusnutdinova, E.K., Balanovsky, O., Semino, O., Pereira, L., Comas, D., Gurwitz, D., Bonne-Tamir, B., Parfitt, T., Hammer, M.F., Skorecki, K., Villems, R., 2010. The genome-wide structure of the Jewish people. Nature 466, 238–242.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Allan, D., Bragg, N., 2012. 802.1aq Shortest Path Bridging Design and Evolution. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Pohlmann, N., Reimer, H., Schneider, W. (Eds.), 2009. ISSE 2008 Securing Electronic Business Processes: Highlights of the Information Security Solutions Europe 2008 Conference. Vieweg+Teubner, Wiesbaden.

A chapter in an edited book

McGee, R.W., 2009. The Role of Stakeholders in Corporate Governance, in: McGee, R.W. (Ed.), Corporate Governance in Transition Economies. Springer US, Boston, MA, pp. 35–39.

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 Aquaculture.

Blog post

Fang, J., 2015. Medieval Men Recovering From Head Trauma Suffered Higher Risk of Dying [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/medieval-men-recovering-head-trauma-suffered-higher-risk-dying/ (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 2012. Motor Carrier Safety: New Applicant Reviews Should Expand to Identify Freight Carriers Evading Detection (No. GAO-12-364). 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

Long, J.J., 2012. Comparison of health-promoting lifestyles in adult patients with and without primary care provider continuity (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

Schwartz, J., 2017. Apologies. Really. And I Will Definitely Grow Up. New York Times BU14.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Chen, 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Chen, 2001; Mitchell and Power, 2003).

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

Two authors: (Mitchell and Power, 2003)
Three or more authors: (Behar et al., 2010)

About the journal

Full journal title	Aquaculture
Abbreviation	Aquaculture
ISSN (print)	0044-8486
Scope	Aquatic Science