How to format your references using the Aquaculture Environment Interactions citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Aquaculture Environment Interactions. 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

Smaglik P (2002) Where are all the students? Nature 420:3.

A journal article with 2 authors

Culjkovic-Kraljacic B, Borden KLB (2010) Cell biology. Puzzled by PML. Science 330:1183–1184.

A journal article with 3 authors

Mooney H, Cropper A, Reid W (2005) Confronting the human dilemma. Nature 434:561–562.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Titov V, Rabinovich AB, Mofjeld HO, Thomson RE, González FI (2005) The global reach of the 26 December 2004 Sumatra tsunami. Science 309:2045–2048.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Nagashima Y (2013) Elementary Particle Physics. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany.

An edited book

Meersman R, Panetto H, Dillon T, Rinderle-Ma S, Dadam P, Zhou X, Pearson S, Ferscha A, Bergamaschi S, Cruz IF (eds) (2012) On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems: OTM 2012: Confederated International Conferences: CoopIS, DOA-SVI, and ODBASE 2012, Rome, Italy, September 10-14, 2012. Proceedings, Part I. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Pasupuleti J, Nigam SN (2013) Phenotyping for Groundnut (Arachis hypogaea L.) Improvement. In: Phenotyping for Plant Breeding: Applications of Phenotyping Methods for Crop Improvement. Panguluri SK, Kumar AA (eds) Springer, New York, NY, p 129–167

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 Environment Interactions.

Blog post

Hamilton K (2015) Watch SpaceX Launch Their Reusable Rocket LIVE. https://www.iflscience.com/space/watch-spacex-falcon-9-launch-and-landing-attempt/ (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 (2006) Freight Railroads: Preliminary Observations on Rates, Competition, and Capacity Issues. 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

Goldstein DL (2010) Integration of geospatial technologies into K–12 curriculum: An investigation of teacher and student perceptions and student academic achievement. Doctoral dissertation, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL

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

Hollander S (2009) T, Her Name Is Twindexane. New York Times:CY6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Smaglik 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Smaglik 2002, Culjkovic-Kraljacic & Borden 2010).

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

Two authors: (Culjkovic-Kraljacic & Borden 2010)
Three or more authors: (Titov et al. 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	Aquaculture Environment Interactions
Abbreviation	Aquac. Environ. Interact.
ISSN (print)	1869-215X
ISSN (online)	1869-7534
Scope	Aquatic Science Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law Water Science and Technology