How to format your references using the Limnologica citation style

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

Lowe, J.B., 2005. Cell biology. Does Notch take the sweet road to success? Science 307, 1570–1572.

A journal article with 2 authors

Phadnis, N., Orr, H.A., 2009. A single gene causes both male sterility and segregation distortion in Drosophila hybrids. Science 323, 376–379.

A journal article with 3 authors

Pendry, J.B., Martín-Moreno, L., Garcia-Vidal, F.J., 2004. Mimicking surface plasmons with structured surfaces. Science 305, 847–848.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Zakharova, K., Marzban, G., de Vera, J.-P., Lorek, A., Sterflinger, K., 2014. Protein patterns of black fungi under simulated Mars-like conditions. Sci. Rep. 4, 5114.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Center for Chemical Process Safety, 1999. Guidelines for Process Safety in Batch Reaction Systems. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Grötschel, M., Lucas, K., Mehrmann, V. (Eds.), 2010. Production Factor Mathematics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Grüne, L., Hirche, S., Junge, O., Koltai, P., Lehmann, D., Lunze, J., Molin, A., Sailer, R., Sigurani, M., Stöcker, C., Wirth, F., 2014. Event-Based Control, in: Lunze, Jan (Ed.), Control Theory of Digitally Networked Dynamic Systems. Springer International Publishing, Heidelberg, pp. 169–261.

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 Limnologica.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2014. 5 Unsolved Mysteries of Space [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/space/5-unsolved-mysteries-space/ (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, 1989. Reports Issued in July 1989 (No. 139352). 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

Wahl, S.E., 2008. Registered nurse preceptorship orientation: A study of the relationship between burnout rates of new graduates and number of preceptors worked with in the clinical orientation phase (Doctoral dissertation). Capella University, Minneapolis, MN.

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

Austen, B., 2016. Violence and Division on Chicago’s South Side. New York Times SR5.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Lowe, 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Lowe, 2005; Phadnis and Orr, 2009).

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

Two authors: (Phadnis and Orr, 2009)
Three or more authors: (Zakharova et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Limnologica
Abbreviation	Limnologica
ISSN (print)	0075-9511
Scope	Aquatic Science