How to format your references using the Aquatic Living Resources citation style

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

Carbone A., 2013, Information measure for long-range correlated sequences: the case of the 24 human chromosomes. Sci. Rep. 3, 2721.

A journal article with 2 authors

Bloodgood B.L., Sabatini B.L., 2005, Neuronal activity regulates diffusion across the neck of dendritic spines. Science 310, 866–869.

A journal article with 3 authors

Ahn C.H., Rabe K.M., Triscone J.-M., 2004, Ferroelectricity at the nanoscale: local polarization in oxide thin films and heterostructures. Science 303, 488–491.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Bassing C.H., Alt F.W., Hughes M.M., D’Auteuil M., Wehrly T.D., Woodman B.B., Gärtner F., White J.M., Davidson L., Sleckman B.P., 2000, Recombination signal sequences restrict chromosomal V(D)J recombination beyond the 12/23 rule. Nature 405, 583–586.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Cretu O., Stewart R., Berends T., 2011, Risk Management for Design and Construction. Hoboken, NJ, John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Schnars U., 2015, Digital Holography and Wavefront Sensing: Principles, Techniques and Applications. 2nd ed. 2015, Berlin, Heidelberg, Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Luenberger D.G., Ye Y., 2016, Interior-Point Methods. In: Ye Y. (Ed.), Linear and Nonlinear Programming, International Series in Operations Research & Management Science. Cham, Springer International Publishing, pp. 115–147.

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 Living Resources.

Blog post

O`Callaghan J., 2015, Hubble Snaps Incredible Image Of A Super Bright Star Cluster At The Milky Way’s Heart [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/space/hubble-snaps-incredible-image-super-bright-star-cluster-milky-ways-heart/ (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, 2017, Surface Transportation: A Comprehensive Plan Could Facilitate Implementation of a National Performance Management Approach ( No. GAO-17-638). Washington, DC, U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Hill J.A., 2012, Classical three-body systems and the Kolmogorov-Arnold-Moser theorem (Doctoral dissertation). Long Beach, CA, California State University, Long Beach.

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

Vecsey G., 2010, England vs. United States: The Beauty of Anticipation. New York Times B11.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Carbone 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Bloodgood and Sabatini 2005; Carbone 2013).

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

Two authors: (Bloodgood and Sabatini 2005)
Three or more authors: (Bassing et al. 2000)

About the journal

Full journal title	Aquatic Living Resources
Abbreviation	Aquat. Living Resour.
ISSN (print)	0990-7440
ISSN (online)	1765-2952
Scope	Aquatic Science