How to format your references using the Aquatic Invasions citation style

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

Ball P (2000) Meet the spin doctors. Nature 404(6781): 918–920

A journal article with 2 authors

Roberts RG, Lian OB (2015) Dating techniques: Illuminating the past. Nature 520(7548): 438–439

A journal article with 3 authors

Barthelemy P, Bertolotti J, Wiersma DS (2008) A Lévy flight for light. Nature 453(7194): 495–498

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Zuber MT, Phillips RJ, Andrews-Hanna JC, Asmar SW, Konopliv AS, Lemoine FG, Plaut JJ, Smith DE, Smrekar SE (2007) Density of Mars’ south polar layered deposits. Science (New York, NY) 317(5845): 1718–1719

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hunter DA (2014) A Practical Guide to Critical Thinking. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ,

An edited book

Akiyama J, Bo J, Kano M, Tan X (eds) (2011) Computational Geometry, Graphs and Applications: 9th International Conference, CGGA 2010, Dalian, China, November 3-6, 2010, Revised Selected Papers. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, VIII, 227 p p

A chapter in an edited book

Dingsøyr T (2009) Strategies and Approaches for Managing Architectural Knowledge. In: Ali Babar M, Dingsøyr T, Lago P, Vliet H van (eds), Software Architecture Knowledge Management: Theory and Practice. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 59–68

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 Invasions.

Blog post

Josh Davis Pig-Like “Bacon Turtle” Swam The Ancient Waterways Of Utah (2015). IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/extinct-bacon-turtle-lived-ancient-waterways-utah/ (Accessed 30 October 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 (1990) Staffing, Training, and Funding Issues for FAA’s Major Work Forces. T-RCED-90-42, Washington, DC, March 14, 1990,

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Yahil RJ (2010) The role of interleukin-19 in interleukin-10 production by regulatory macrophages. Doctoral dissertation Thesis. University of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD,

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

Saslow L (2007) Nassau and Suffolk Rate Poorly on Air Quality. New York Times p LI2

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Ball 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Ball 2000; Roberts and Lian 2015).

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

Two authors: (Roberts and Lian 2015)
Three or more authors: (Zuber et al. 2007)

About the journal

Full journal title	Aquatic Invasions
Abbreviation	Aquat. Invasions
ISSN (online)	1818-5487
Scope	Aquatic Science Water Science and Technology