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

Rustichini A (2005) Neuroscience. Emotion and reason in making decisions. Science 310:1624–1625

A journal article with 2 authors

Sanders RW, Moore JP (2014) HIV: A stamp on the envelope. Nature 514:437–438

A journal article with 3 authors

Bick AG, Calvo SE, Mootha VK (2012) Evolutionary diversity of the mitochondrial calcium uniporter. Science 336:886

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Milazzo M, Rodolfo-Metalpa R, Chan VBS, et al (2014) Ocean acidification impairs vermetid reef recruitment. Sci Rep 4:4189

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Raheja DG, Allocco M (2006) Assurance Technologies Principles and Practices. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Rozelot J-P, Neiner C (eds) (2009) The Rotation of Sun and Stars. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Tribollet A (2008) The boring microflora in modern coral reef ecosystems: a review of its roles. In: Wisshak M, Tapanila L (eds) Current Developments in Bioerosion. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 67–94

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

Davis J (2017) World’s First Fluorescent Frog Discovered In The Amazon. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/worlds-first-fluorescent-frog-discovered-in-the-amazon/. 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 (1978) A Second Launch Site for the Shuttle? An Analysis of Needs for the Nation’s Space Program. 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

Hagarty EP (2008) A predictive risk modeling system for the management of small-scale water and wastewater facilities: Toward long-term sustainability of our national parks. Doctoral dissertation, George Washington 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

Pilon M, Kolata G (2013) New to Most Fans, IGF-1 Has Long Been Banned as a Performance Enhancer. New York Times B13

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Rustichini 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Rustichini 2005; Sanders and Moore 2014).

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

Two authors: (Sanders and Moore 2014)
Three or more authors: (Milazzo et al. 2014)

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