How to format your references using the Sexuality and Early Development in Aquatic Organisms citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Sexuality and Early Development in 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	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

Savolainen O (2011) Evolution. The genomic basis of local climatic adaptation. Science 334:49–50.

A journal article with 2 authors

Rinberg D, Davidowitz H (2000) Do cockroaches ‘know’ about fluid dynamics? Nature 405:756.

A journal article with 3 authors

Goddard MR, Godfray HCJ, Burt A (2005) Sex increases the efficacy of natural selection in experimental yeast populations. Nature 434:636–640.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Erhard KF Jr, Stonaker JL, Parkinson SE, Lim JP, Hale CJ, Hollick JB (2009) RNA polymerase IV functions in paramutation in Zea mays. Science 323:1201–1205.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Rodgers N (2000) Learning to Reason. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Chaudhuri K, Chatterjee SN (eds) (2009) Cholera Toxins. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Bagirov AM, Mohebi E (2015) Nonsmooth Optimization Based Algorithms in Cluster Analysis. In: Partitional Clustering Algorithms. Celebi ME (ed) Springer International Publishing, Cham, p 99–146

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 Sexuality and Early Development in Aquatic Organisms.

Blog post

O`Callaghan J (2016) Ancient Hot Spring On Mars May Contain Signs Of Past Life. https://www.iflscience.com/space/ancient-hot-spring-on-mars-may-contain-signs-of-past-life/ (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 (1977) Vulnerabilities of Telecommunications Systems to Unauthorized Use. 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

Keep AW (2013) A nanopass framework for commercial compiler development. Doctoral dissertation, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN

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

Wagner J (2016) Reyes May Dabble in Outfield as Mets Seek More Versatility. New York Times:B12.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Savolainen 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Rinberg & Davidowitz 2000, Savolainen 2011).

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

Two authors: (Rinberg & Davidowitz 2000)
Three or more authors: (Erhard et al. 2009)

About the journal

Full journal title	Sexuality and Early Development in Aquatic Organisms
ISSN (print)	2195-2736
ISSN (online)	2195-2744
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