How to format your references using the Aquatic Geochemistry citation style

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

Sharon E (2012) Materials science. Swell approaches for changing polymer shapes. Science 335:1179–1180

A journal article with 2 authors

Parashar UD, Glass RI (2006) Public health. Progress toward rotavirus vaccines. Science 312:851–852

A journal article with 3 authors

Lyons TW, Reinhard CT, Planavsky NJ (2014) The rise of oxygen in Earth’s early ocean and atmosphere. Nature 506:307–315

A journal article with 5 or more authors

West SA, Murray MG, Machado CA, et al (2001) Testing Hamilton’s rule with competition between relatives. Nature 409:510–513

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kerzner H (2015) Project Management 2.0. John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Czachórski T, Kozielski S, Stańczyk U (eds) (2011) Man-Machine Interactions 2. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Lopes A, Oliveira S, Fragoso M, et al (2009) Wind Risk Assessment in Urban Environments: The Case of Falling Trees During Windstorm Events in Lisbon. In: Střelcová K, Mátyás C, Kleidon A, et al. (eds) Bioclimatology and Natural Hazards. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp 55–74

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 Geochemistry.

Blog post

Hale T (2017) Tilikum, The Orca From The Documentary BlackFish, Has Died. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/tilikum-the-orca-from-the-documentary-blackfish-has-died/. 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 (2014) Data Transparency: Oversight Needed to Address Underreporting and Inconsistencies on Federal Award Website. 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

Priddy JD-J (2014) As Tufa to Sapphire: Gendering the Roles of Medieval Women in Combat. Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University

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

Chapman MM (2012) Uncomfortable Accounting. New York Times B1

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Sharon 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Parashar and Glass 2006; Sharon 2012).

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

Two authors: (Parashar and Glass 2006)
Three or more authors: (West et al. 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	Aquatic Geochemistry
Abbreviation	Aquat. Geochem.
ISSN (print)	1380-6165
ISSN (online)	1573-1421
Scope	Geochemistry and Petrology Geophysics