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

Bennett, R. 2009. Journal club. A microbiologist wonders what turns us on. Nature 461(7260): 15.

A journal article with 2 authors

Zimmerman, G.A., and Weyrich, A.S. 2010. Immunology. Arsonists in rheumatoid arthritis. Science 327(5965): 528–529.

A journal article with 3 authors

Rockman, M.V., Skrovanek, S.S., and Kruglyak, L. 2010. Selection at linked sites shapes heritable phenotypic variation in C. elegans. Science 330(6002): 372–376.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Tarduno, J., Bunge, H.-P., Sleep, N., and Hansen, U. 2009. The bent Hawaiian-Emperor hotspot track: inheriting the mantle wind. Science 324(5923): 50–53.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Prud’Homme, R. 2013. Flows and Chemical Reactions in Homogeneous Mixtures. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ USA.

An edited book

Oliveira, L.C. 2015. Surface Plasmon Resonance Sensors: A Materials Guide to Design and Optimization. Edited ByA.M.N. Lima, C. Thirstrup, and H.F. Neff. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Babenyshev, S., and Rybakov, V. 2008. Decidability of Hybrid Logic with Local Common Knowledge Based on Linear Temporal Logic LTL. In Logic and Theory of Algorithms: 4th Conference on Computability in Europe, CiE 2008, Athens, Greece, June 15-20, 2008 Proceedings. Edited by A. Beckmann, C. Dimitracopoulos, and B. Löwe. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. pp. 32–41.

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

Hamilton, K. 2017, May 26. Sleep Deprivation Makes The Brain Go Into Overdrive And “Eat Itself’. IFLScience. Available from https://www.iflscience.com/brain/sleep-deprivation-makes-the-brain-go-into-overdrive-and-eat-itself/ [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. 1983. [Suitability of the MUMPS Language for Government Agencies]. 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

Wahid, R. 2012. Quality of life of cancer patients receiving chemotherapy. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Johnson, G. 2014, October 21. Seeking Stars, Finding Creationism. New York Times: D3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Bennett 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Bennett 2009; Zimmerman and Weyrich 2010).

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

Two authors: (Zimmerman and Weyrich 2010)
Three or more authors: (Tarduno et al. 2009)

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