How to format your references using the Diseases of Aquatic Organisms citation style

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

Davidson EH (2010) Emerging properties of animal gene regulatory networks. Nature 468:911–920.

A journal article with 2 authors

Palleroni A, Hauser M (2003) Experience-dependent plasticity for auditory processing in a raptor. Science 299:1195.

A journal article with 3 authors

Wisniewski W, Patschger M, Rüssel C (2013) Viscous fingering and dendritic growth of surface crystallized Sr2TiSi2O8 fresnoite. Sci Rep 3:3558.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Wardemann H, Yurasov S, Schaefer A, Young JW, Meffre E, Nussenzweig MC (2003) Predominant autoantibody production by early human B cell precursors. Science 301:1374–1377.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Chartered Institute of Building (2016) Code of Practice for Programme Management in the Built Environment. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Estivalet M (2008) The Engineering of Sport 7: Vol. 2. Brisson P (ed) Springer, Paris.

A chapter in an edited book

Jain V, Verma SK (2012) Pharmacological Investigations and Toxicity Studies. In: Pharmacology of Bombax ceiba Linn. SpringerBriefs in Pharmacology and Toxicology, Verma SK (ed) Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, p 51–67

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 Diseases of Aquatic Organisms.

Blog post

Davis J (2017) Astronauts To Grow Space Crystals To Help Medical Drug Development. (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 (2006) Financial Management Systems: Additional Efforts Needed to Address Key Causes of Modernization Failures. 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

Kraynik MJ (2009) Perceptions of U.S. Navy managers toward telecommuting as a management approach: A phenomenological study. Doctoral dissertation, University of Phoenix, Phoenix, AZ

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 (2011) In Showalter, Orioles Have a Guy Who Never Misses a Trick. New York Times:B14.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Davidson 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Palleroni & Hauser 2003, Davidson 2010).

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

Two authors: (Palleroni & Hauser 2003)
Three or more authors: (Wardemann et al. 2003)

About the journal

Full journal title	Diseases of Aquatic Organisms
Abbreviation	Dis. Aquat. Organ.
ISSN (print)	0177-5103
ISSN (online)	1616-1580
Scope	Aquatic Science Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics