How to format your references using the Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences. 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 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

Gershon, D. 2002. Silicon dreams in the biology lab. Nature 417(6892): 4–5.

A journal article with 2 authors

Goldfine, H., and Vance, D.E. 2001. Obituary: Konrad E. Bloch (1912-2000). Nature 409(6822): 779.

A journal article with 3 authors

Nosil, P., Crespi, B.J., and Sandoval, C.P. 2002. Host-plant adaptation drives the parallel evolution of reproductive isolation. Nature 417(6887): 440–443.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Piot, P., Bartos, M., Ghys, P.D., Walker, N., and Schwartländer, B. 2001. The global impact of HIV/AIDS. Nature 410(6831): 968–973.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Malpass, D.B., and Band, E.I. 2012. Introduction to Industrial Polypropylene. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Nicolaides, A., Beach, K.W., Kyriacou, E., and Pattichis, C.S. (Editors). 2012. Ultrasound and Carotid Bifurcation Atherosclerosis. Springer, London.

A chapter in an edited book

Bourezak, R., and Bilodeau, G.-A. 2006. Iterative Division and Correlograms for Detection and Tracking of Moving Objects. In Advances in Machine Vision, Image Processing, and Pattern Analysis: International Workshop on Intelligent Computing in Pattern Analysis/Synthesis, IWICPAS 2006 Xi’an, China, August 26-27, 2006 Proceedings. Edited by N. Zheng, X. Jiang, and X. Lan. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. pp. 46–55.

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 Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences.

Blog post

Andrew, E. 2015, June 9. Before We Build Jurassic World We Need To Study Recent Extinctions. IFLScience. Available from https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/we-build-jurassic-world-we-need-study-recent-extinctions/ [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. 1997. Tax Systems Modernization: IRS Needs to Resolve Certain Issues With Its Integrated Case Processing System. 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

Zhang, G. 2010. Roles of serotonin 2A receptor in a serotonin syndrome. Doctoral dissertation, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL.

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

Belson, K., and Pilon, M. 2012, July 1. Felix’s 200-Meter Win May Help Settle the 100. New York Times: SP7.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Gershon 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Goldfine and Vance 2001; Gershon 2002).

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

Two authors: (Goldfine and Vance 2001)
Three or more authors: (Piot et al. 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences
Abbreviation	Can. J. Fish. Aquat. Sci.
ISSN (print)	0706-652X
ISSN (online)	1205-7533
Scope	Aquatic Science Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics