How to format your references using the Environmental Biology of Fishes citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Environmental Biology of Fishes. 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

Toomre J (2002) Solar physics. Order amidst turbulence. Science 296:64–65

A journal article with 2 authors

Balafoutas L, Sutter M (2012) Affirmative action policies promote women and do not harm efficiency in the laboratory. Science 335:579–582

A journal article with 3 authors

Alston JM, Beddow JM, Pardey PG (2009) Agriculture. Agricultural research, productivity, and food prices in the long run. Science 325:1209–1210

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Lodahl P, Floris Van Driel A, Nikolaev IS, et al (2004) Controlling the dynamics of spontaneous emission from quantum dots by photonic crystals. Nature 430:654–657

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Anderson JC, Naeim F (2012) Basic Structural Dynamics. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Grieco N, Marzegalli M, Paganoni AM (eds) (2013) New Diagnostic, Therapeutic and Organizational Strategies for Acute Coronary Syndromes Patients. Springer, Milano

A chapter in an edited book

Assens C, Lemeur AC (2016) Governance of a Network of Networks: Case Studies. In: Lemeur AC (ed) Networks Governance, Partnership Management and Coalitions Federation. Palgrave Macmillan UK, London, pp 38–60

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 Environmental Biology of Fishes.

Blog post

Luntz S (2016) Oldest Planetary Disk Discovered With Help From Citizen Scientists. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/oldest-planetary-disk-discovered-with-help-from-citizen-scientists/. 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 (2000) Small Business Administration: Status of Mandated Planning for Loan Monitoring 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

Dhokar A (2015) LabVIEW based simulation and animation for the vibration control of active mass damper. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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

Baker AL, Rosenberg E, Mueller B (2016) Police Sergeant Fatally Shot in the Bronx; Another Is Injured. New York Times A16

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Toomre 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Toomre 2002; Balafoutas and Sutter 2012).

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

Two authors: (Balafoutas and Sutter 2012)
Three or more authors: (Lodahl et al. 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	Environmental Biology of Fishes
Abbreviation	Environ. Biol. Fishes
ISSN (print)	0378-1909
ISSN (online)	1573-5133
Scope	Aquatic Science Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics