How to format your references using the Aquatic Microbial Ecology citation style

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

Mandavilli A (2005) India. Nature 436:477.

A journal article with 2 authors

Low HH, Löwe J (2006) A bacterial dynamin-like protein. Nature 444:766–769.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hayden BY, Pearson JM, Platt ML (2009) Fictive reward signals in the anterior cingulate cortex. Science 324:948–950.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Chiti F, Stefani M, Taddei N, Ramponi G, Dobson CM (2003) Rationalization of the effects of mutations on peptide and protein aggregation rates. Nature 424:805–808.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Häussler-Combe U (2014) Computational Methods for Reinforced Concrete Structures. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH, D-69451 Weinheim, Germany.

An edited book

Faletra FF (2010) Atlas of Real Time 3D Transesophageal Echocardiography. Castro S, Pandian NG, Kronzon I, Nesser H-J, Yen Ho S (eds) Springer, London.

A chapter in an edited book

Haupt SE (2009) Introduction to Genetic Algorithms. In: Artificial Intelligence Methods in the Environmental Sciences. Haupt SE, Pasini A, Marzban C (eds) Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, p 103–125

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 Microbial Ecology.

Blog post

Andrew E (2015) Lucky Female Flour Beetles Get More Sperm If They Smell Like Other Males. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/lucky-female-flour-beetles-get-more-sperm-if-they-smell-other-males/ (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 (2012) HUD Information Technology: More Work Remains to Implement Necessary Management Controls. 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

Domec BS (2017) Development, Characterization, and Resultant Properties of a Carbon, Boron, and Chromium Ternary Diffusion System. Doctoral dissertation, University of Louisiana, Lafayette, LA

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

Johnson G (2011) Cancer’s Secrets Come Into Sharper Focus. New York Times:D1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Mandavilli 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Mandavilli 2005, Low & Löwe 2006).

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

Two authors: (Low & Löwe 2006)
Three or more authors: (Chiti et al. 2003)

About the journal

Full journal title	Aquatic Microbial Ecology
Abbreviation	Aquat. Microb. Ecol.
ISSN (print)	0948-3055
ISSN (online)	1616-1564
Scope	Aquatic Science Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics