How to format your references using the International Aquatic Research citation style

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

LeBlanc LJ (2015) Quantum physics: Two-atom bunching. Nature 520:36–37

A journal article with 2 authors

Koechlin E, Hyafil A (2007) Anterior prefrontal function and the limits of human decision-making. Science 318:594–598

A journal article with 3 authors

Takeuchi N, Yamanashi Y, Yoshikawa N (2014) Reversible logic gate using adiabatic superconducting devices. Sci Rep 4:6354

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Kim JV, Kang SS, Dustin ML, McGavern DB (2009) Myelomonocytic cell recruitment causes fatal CNS vascular injury during acute viral meningitis. Nature 457:191–195

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Sundar V (2015) Ocean Wave Mechanics. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Schmidt WJ, Reith MEA (eds) (2005) Dopamine and Glutamate in Psychiatric Disorders. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ

A chapter in an edited book

Khalilpour KR, Vassallo A (2016) PV-Battery Nanogrid Systems. In: Vassallo A (ed) Community Energy Networks With Storage: Modeling Frameworks for Distributed Generation. Springer, Singapore, pp 61–82

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 International Aquatic Research.

Blog post

O`Callaghan J (2017) Here Are Gifs Of Crash Test Dummies In An Airplane To Remind You That Things Are Terrible. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/here-are-gifs-of-crash-test-dummies-in-an-airplane-to-remind-you-that-things-are-terrible/. Accessed 30 Oct 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 (1989) Computer Systems: Types and Sources of Department of State Lookout Records. 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

Toler RL (2017) Structural Equation Modeling of Advertising Involvement, Consumer Attitude, and Engagement for Video Advertising in a Social Networking Site. Doctoral dissertation, Northcentral University

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

Shpigel B (2016) Pursuing Gold, Not Platitudes. New York Times SP1

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (LeBlanc 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Koechlin and Hyafil 2007; LeBlanc 2015).

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

Two authors: (Koechlin and Hyafil 2007)
Three or more authors: (Kim et al. 2009)

About the journal

Full journal title	International Aquatic Research
Abbreviation	Int. Aquat. Res.
ISSN (print)	2008-4935
ISSN (online)	2008-6970
Scope	Aquatic Science