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

Lohmann KJ (2010) Q&A: Animal behaviour: Magnetic-field perception. Nature 464:1140–1142

A journal article with 2 authors

Chung HS, Eaton WA (2013) Single-molecule fluorescence probes dynamics of barrier crossing. Nature 502:685–688

A journal article with 3 authors

Tang Z, Kotov NA, Giersig M (2002) Spontaneous organization of single CdTe nanoparticles into luminescent nanowires. Science 297:237–240

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Mao WL, Mao H-K, Eng PJ, et al (2003) Bonding changes in compressed superhard graphite. Science 302:425–427

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Rangarao KV, Mallik RK (2006) Digital Signal Processing. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Janowski T, Mohanty H (eds) (2007) Distributed Computing and Internet Technology: 4th International Conference, ICDCIT 2007, Bangalore, India, December 17-20. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Carlier M-F, Helfer E, Wade R, Haraux F (2009) Living Nanomachines. In: Boisseau P, Houdy P, Lahmani M (eds) Nanoscience: Nanobiotechnology and Nanobiology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 171–222

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

Hale T (2017) Egyptian Mummy Of Member Of The Wealthy Elite Discovered In A Tomb Near River Nile. In: IFLScience. 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) Year 2000 Computing Crisis: An Assessment Guide (Supersedes 158206). 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

Baugh JB (2008) Deregulation and management strategies: A case study of Georgia System Operations Corporation. Doctoral dissertation, Capella 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

SOPHIA PECK ROSS.RICHARD F. BLOUGH.HUGH ARCHBALD.ALEXANDER ROYDEN.RAPHAEL.SPENCER B. WITTY.CARL R. KLEIN, Tilis LB, JOSEPH A. CELESTE.JONATHAN ESTOFF.GEORGES SCHREIBER.THOMAS J. BARNUM.ALLAN C. INMAN (1950) Letters; NOT CITY GUIDES TO THE PEOPLE GOP TROUBLE GRACE AND CHARM HOWL WITTY, TOO A BAS “ERPIVORI” OLD HAT FOREIGN SERVICE HERITAGE. New York Times The New York Times Magazine151

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Lohmann 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Lohmann 2010; Chung and Eaton 2013).

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

Two authors: (Chung and Eaton 2013)
Three or more authors: (Mao et al. 2003)

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

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