How to format your references using the Acta Ichthyologica et Piscatoria citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Acta Ichthyologica et Piscatoria. 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 references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles 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

Spitzer N.C. 2015. DEVELOPMENTAL NEUROSCIENCE. Neurotransmitter-tailored dendritic trees. Science (New York, N.Y.) 350 (6260): 510–511.

A journal article with 2 authors

Perera R.M., Bardeesy N. 2011. Cancer: when antioxidants are bad. Nature 475 (7354): 43–44.

A journal article with 3 authors

Roselló-Díez A., Ros M.A., Torres M. 2011. Diffusible signals, not autonomous mechanisms, determine the main proximodistal limb subdivision. Science (New York, N.Y.) 332 (6033): 1086–1088.

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Percec I., Plenge R.M., Nadeau J.H., et al. 2002. Autosomal dominant mutations affecting X inactivation choice in the mouse. Science (New York, N.Y.) 296 (5570): 1136–1139.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bolstad W.M., Curran J.M. 2016. Introduction to Bayesian Statistics, Third Edition. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Sommer W.H., Spanagel R. (eds). 2013. Behavioral Neurobiology of Alcohol Addiction. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Alós-Ferrer C., Ritzberger K. 2016. Extensive Decision Problems. Pp. 67–97. In: Ritzberger K. (ed). The Theory of Extensive Form Games. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

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 Acta Ichthyologica et Piscatoria.

Blog post

Taub B. 2016. Baby Macaques Smile In Their Sleep, Just Like Humans. In: IFLScience. . https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/baby-macaques-smile-sleep-like-humans/. 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. 1997. Student Financial Aid: Federal Aid Awarded to Students Taking Remedial Courses. 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

Ghale K. 2015. Modeling the Traffic Impacts During Evacuation of a Suburban University Campus: A Case Study. Doctoral dissertation, Southern Illinois 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

(nyt) S.K. 2002. World Briefing | Europe: Ukraine: Air-Show Officials Face Trial. New York Times: A6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Spitzer 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Perera and Bardeesy 2011; Spitzer 2015).

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

Two authors: (Perera and Bardeesy 2011)
Three or more authors: (Percec et al. 2002)

About the journal

Full journal title	Acta Ichthyologica et Piscatoria
ISSN (print)	0137-1592
ISSN (online)	1734-1515
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