How to format your references using the Aquatic Data citation style

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

Schwab, M.E., 2002. Repairing the injured spinal cord. Science 295, 1029–1031.

A journal article with 2 authors

Bao, J., Bawendi, M.G., 2015. A colloidal quantum dot spectrometer. Nature 523, 67–70.

A journal article with 3 authors

Zhang, G., Liu, C., Fan, S., 2013. Directly measuring of thermal pulse transfer in one-dimensional highly aligned carbon nanotubes. Sci. Rep. 3, 2549.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Colombe, Y., Steinmetz, T., Dubois, G., Linke, F., Hunger, D., Reichel, J., 2007. Strong atom-field coupling for Bose-Einstein condensates in an optical cavity on a chip. Nature 450, 272–276.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Rowe, W.B., 2010. Modern Grinding Techniques. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

O’Donovan, P. (Ed.), 2008. Complications in Gynecological Surgery. Springer, London.

A chapter in an edited book

Martens, K., Wolf, K.D., 2009. Boomerangs and Trojan Horses: The Unintended Consequences of Internationalising Education Policy Through the EU and the OECD, in: Amaral, A., Neave, G., Musselin, C., Maassen, P. (Eds.), European Integration and the Governance of Higher Education and Research, Higher Education Dynamics. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp. 81–107.

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 Data.

Blog post

Luntz, S., 2014. Deep Sea Explorers Spot Bizarre Fish That Doesn’t Look Real [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/rare-footage-deepsea-spookfish/ (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, 1988. Competition in the Airline Computerized Reservation System Industry (No. T-RCED-88-62). 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

Aggarwal, E., 2012. South Asian women’s attitudes toward help-seeking behaviors (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

Hollander, S., 2002. Friends and Family Run for 9/11 Victims. New York Times D6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Schwab, 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Bao and Bawendi, 2015; Schwab, 2002).

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

Two authors: (Bao and Bawendi, 2015)
Three or more authors: (Colombe et al., 2007)

About the journal

Full journal title	Aquatic Data
ISSN (print)	2468-1318
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