How to format your references using the Aquaculture International citation style

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

Snieckus V (2015) Richard Heck (1931-2015). Nature 527:306

A journal article with 2 authors

Renaud P, Leong P (2008) Chemistry. A light touch catalyzes asymmetric carbon-carbon bond formation. Science 322:55–56

A journal article with 3 authors

Thomas JA, Simcox DJ, Clarke RT (2009) Successful conservation of a threatened Maculinea butterfly. Science 325:80–83

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Weikum WM, Vouloumanos A, Navarra J, et al (2007) Visual language discrimination in infancy. Science 316:1159

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Berthou P, Baudoin C, Gayraud T, Gineste M (2015) Satellite and Terrestrial Hybrid Networks. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Cremers D, Reid I, Saito H, Yang M-H (eds) (2015) Computer Vision -- ACCV 2014: 12th Asian Conference on Computer Vision, Singapore, Singapore, November 1-5, 2014, Revised Selected Papers, Part V. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Andrews B, Hopper C (2011) Short-Time Existence. In: Hopper C (ed) The Ricci Flow in Riemannian Geometry: A Complete Proof of the Differentiable 1/4-Pinching Sphere Theorem. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 83–95

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 International.

Blog post

Hale T (2016) “Scarface,” The Beloved Bear Of Yellowstone Park, Has Been Killed. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/scarface-beloved-bear-yellowstone-park-has-been-shot/. Accessed 30 Oct 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 (2010) Telecommunications: FCC’s Performance Management Weaknesses Could Jeopardize Proposed Reforms of the Rural Health Care Program. 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

Shirley A (2012) Connecting foster children with their siblings within a summer camp setting: A grant proposal. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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

Kishkovsky S (2005) A Choreographer Vanishes In Murky Russian Mystery. New York Times E1

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Snieckus 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Renaud and Leong 2008; Snieckus 2015).

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

Two authors: (Renaud and Leong 2008)
Three or more authors: (Weikum et al. 2007)

About the journal

Full journal title	Aquaculture International
Abbreviation	Aquac. Int.
ISSN (print)	0967-6120
ISSN (online)	1573-143X
Scope	Agronomy and Crop Science Aquatic Science