How to format your references using the Aquatic Botany citation style

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

Grimes, R.N., 2011. William Nunn Lipscomb Jr (1919-2011). Nature 473, 286.

A journal article with 2 authors

Lambert, J.D., Nagy, L.M., 2002. Asymmetric inheritance of centrosomally localized mRNAs during embryonic cleavages. Nature 420, 682–686.

A journal article with 3 authors

Cook, D.J., Teves, L., Tymianski, M., 2012. Treatment of stroke with a PSD-95 inhibitor in the gyrencephalic primate brain. Nature 483, 213–217.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Ligi, M., Bonatti, E., Cuffaro, M., Brunelli, D., 2013. Post-mesozoic rapid increase of seawater Mg/Ca due to enhanced mantle-seawater interaction. Sci. Rep. 3, 2752.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Davies, J., 2010. Implementing SSL/TLS Using Cryptography and PKI. Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, IN, USA.

An edited book

Mamula, P., Markowitz, J.E., Baldassano, R.N. (Eds.), 2008. Pediatric Inflammatory Bowel Disease. Springer US, Boston, MA.

A chapter in an edited book

LeBlanc, S.A., 2014. Warfare and Human Nature, in: Shackelford, T.K., Hansen, R.D. (Eds.), The Evolution of Violence. Springer, New York, NY, pp. 73–97.

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 Aquatic Botany.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2014. Scientists Convert Human Skin Cells Directly Into Brain Cells [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/brain/scientists-convert-human-skin-cells-directly-brain-cells/ (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, 2015. Results-Oriented Management: OPM Needs to Do More to Ensure Meaningful Distinctions Are Made in SES Ratings and Performance Awards (No. GAO-15-189). 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

Frederick, K., 2009. Wool and Water (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

Oestreich, J.R., 2017. Seeking Strength in Numbers. New York Times C2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Grimes, 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Grimes, 2011; Lambert and Nagy, 2002).

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

Two authors: (Lambert and Nagy, 2002)
Three or more authors: (Ligi et al., 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Aquatic Botany
Abbreviation	Aquat. Bot.
ISSN (print)	0304-3770
Scope	Aquatic Science Plant Science