How to format your references using the Fundamental and Applied Limnology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Fundamental and Applied Limnology (FAL). 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

Lupas, A. N. (2014). Protein Design. What I cannot create, I do not understand. Science (New York, N.Y.), 346(6216), 1455–1456.

A journal article with 2 authors

Phillips, P., & Dalidovich, D. (2003). The elusive Bose metal. Science (New York, N.Y.), 302(5643), 243–247.

A journal article with 3 authors

Goldberg, P., Berna, F., & Macphail, R. I. (2009). Comment on “DNA from pre-Clovis human coprolites in Oregon, North America.” Science (New York, N.Y.), 325(5937), 148; author reply 148.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Gong, K., Du, F., Xia, Z., Durstock, M., & Dai, L. (2009). Nitrogen-doped carbon nanotube arrays with high electrocatalytic activity for oxygen reduction. Science (New York, N.Y.), 323(5915), 760–764.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Saint-Dizier, P. (2014). Musical Rhetoric. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Ding, C., Shao, Z., & Zheng, R. (Eds.). (2010). Network and Parallel Computing: IFIP International Conference, NPC 2010, Zhengzhou, China, September 13-15, 2010. Proceedings (Vol. 6289). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Zepp, C. (2016). Coping with Stress During a Marathon. In C. Zinner & B. Sperlich (Eds.), Marathon Running: Physiology, Psychology, Nutrition and Training Aspects (pp. 83–105). Springer International Publishing.

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 Fundamental and Applied Limnology.

Blog post

Carpineti, A. (2017, May 30). Hubble Captures New View Of The Vermin Galaxy And A Protoplanetary Disk. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/hubble-captures-new-view-of-the-vermin-galaxy-and-a-protoplanetary-disk/

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. (1989). ADP Modernization: IRS’ Automated Examination System--Troubled Past, Uncertain Future (IMTEC-89-54). 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

Kalinec-Craig, C. (2012). A case study of four Latina/o pre-service teachers in learning to teach mathematics for understanding and integrate a child’s out-of-school mathematical knowledge and experiences [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Arizona.

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

Koblin, J., & Corasaniti, N. (2017, March 25). One Nation, Under Fox. New York Times, A18.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Lupas 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Lupas 2014; Phillips & Dalidovich 2003).

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

Two authors: (Phillips & Dalidovich 2003)
Three or more authors: (Gong et al. 2009)

About the journal

Full journal title	Fundamental and Applied Limnology
ISSN (print)	1863-9135
ISSN (online)	2363-7110
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