How to format your references using the Fish and Fisheries citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Fish and Fisheries. 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:

PaperpileThe citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNoteDownload the output style file
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and othersThe style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeXBibTeX 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
Buckingham, S. (2010). Call in the women. Nature, 468(7323), 502.
A journal article with 2 authors
Utz, M., & Landers, J. (2010). Chemistry. Magnetic resonance and microfluidics. Science (New York, N.Y.), 330(6007), 1056–1058.
A journal article with 3 authors
Queitsch, C., Sangster, T. A., & Lindquist, S. (2002). Hsp90 as a capacitor of phenotypic variation. Nature, 417(6889), 618–624.
A journal article with 8 or more authors
Guttman, D. S., Vinatzer, B. A., Sarkar, S. F., Ranall, M. V., Kettler, G., & Greenberg, J. T. (2002). A functional screen for the type III (Hrp) secretome of the plant pathogen Pseudomonas syringae. Science (New York, N.Y.), 295(5560), 1722–1726.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
Allen, D. S. (2012). Why Plato Wrote. Blackwell Publishing Ltd.
An edited book
Botti, V. (2008). ANEMONA: A Mulit-agent Methodology for Holonic Manufacturing Systems (A. Giret, Ed.). Springer.
A chapter in an edited book
Smidt, M. P., Peter, J., & Burbach, H. (2009). Terminal Differentiation of Mesodiencephalic Dopaminergic Neurons: In R. J. Pasterkamp, M. P. Smidt, & J. P. H. Burbach (Eds.), Development and Engineering of Dopamine Neurons (pp. 47–57). Springer.

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 Fish and Fisheries.

Blog post
Andrew, E. (2015, September 21). Snake Has Yet Another Virgin Birth. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/single-snake-has-another-virgin-birth/

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). Executive Guide: Measuring Performance and Demonstrating Results of Information Technology Investments (Exposure Draft) (Superseded by AIMD-98-99) (AIMD-97-163). U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation
Bozorgchami, B. (2017). Time and Bandwidth Efficiency in Transmission of Telemedicine and In-Hospital Patient Data [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
Walsh, M. W. (2015, October 23). A Chilly Reception. New York Times, B1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Buckingham, 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Buckingham, 2010; Utz & Landers, 2010).

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

  • Two authors: (Utz & Landers, 2010)
  • Three authors: (Queitsch et al., 2002)
  • 6 or more authors: (Guttman et al., 2002)

About the journal

Full journal titleFish and Fisheries
AbbreviationFish Fish (Oxf.)
ISSN (print)1467-2960
ISSN (online)1467-2979
ScopeAquatic Science
Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
Oceanography
Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law

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