How to format your references using the Aquaculture Reports citation style

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

Matzinger, P., 2002. The danger model: a renewed sense of self. Science 296, 301–305.

A journal article with 2 authors

Sheldon, B.C., Mangel, M., 2014. Behavioural ecology: Love thy neighbour. Nature 512, 381–382.

A journal article with 3 authors

Lowman, M., D’Avanzo, C., Brewer, C., 2009. Ecology. A national ecological network for research and education. Science 323, 1172–1173.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Galik, K., Senut, B., Pickford, M., Gommery, D., Treil, J., Kuperavage, A.J., Eckhardt, R.B., 2004. External and internal morphology of the BAR 1002’00 Orrorin tugenensis femur. Science 305, 1450–1453.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Li, Y., 2015. Computer Principles and Design in Verilog HDL. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Pyr’yev, Y., 2009. Nonsmooth Dynamics of Contacting Thermoelastic Bodies, Advances in Mechanics and Mathematics. Springer, New York, NY.

A chapter in an edited book

Pavlovic, M., Balint, B., 2013. Cord Blood Stem Cells, in: Balint, B. (Ed.), Stem Cells and Tissue Engineering, SpringerBriefs in Electrical and Computer Engineering. Springer, New York, NY, pp. 23–24.

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 Reports.

Blog post

Hale, T., 2015. How A Shark Attack Saved A Man’s Life [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/shark-attack-which-saved-man-s-life/ (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, 1989. ADP Budget: Potential Reductions to the Department of the Army’s Budget Request (No. IMTEC-89-69BR). 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

Lytle, S.C., 2010. Giving voice to the past: New editions of select repertoire of the 26th Regiment Band, North Carolina troops, C.S.A (Doctoral dissertation). University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH.

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

Macfarlane, I., 1905. “AN” AND “H.”; II. New York Times SATURDAY REVIEW OF BOOKSBR535.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Matzinger, 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Matzinger, 2002; Sheldon and Mangel, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Sheldon and Mangel, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Galik et al., 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	Aquaculture Reports
ISSN (print)	2352-5134
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