How to format your references using the Fish and Shellfish Immunology citation style

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

[1]

M.D. Perrin, Astrophysics: Surprisingly fast motions in a dust disk, Nature 526 (2015) 204–205.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

M. Long, K. Thornton, Gene duplication and evolution, Science 293 (2001) 1551.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

F.J. Meyer zu Heringdorf, M.C. Reuter, R.M. Tromp, Growth dynamics of pentacene thin films, Nature 412 (2001) 517–520.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

K.L. Foster, R.A. Plastridge, J.W. Bottenheim, P.B. Shepson, B.J. Finlayson-Pitts, C.W. Spicer, The role of Br2 and BrCl in surface ozone destruction at polar sunrise, Science 291 (2001) 471–474.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

J.-J. Wang, Hydraulic Fracturing in Earth-Rock Fill DAMS, John Wiley & Sons, Singapore Pte. Ltd, Singapore, 2014.

An edited book

[1]

P.K. Swamee, Design of Canals, Springer India, New Delhi, 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

S. Nakamura, Fundamentals of Chemical Reaction Kinetics, in: M. Sugiyama, K. Fujii, S. Nakamura (Eds.), Solar to Chemical Energy Conversion: Theory and Application, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2016: pp. 57–65.

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 Shellfish Immunology.

Blog post

[1]

J. Fang, Milky Way Pillages Star-Making Gas From Our Smallest Neighbors, IFLScience (2014). https://www.iflscience.com/space/milky-way-pillages-star-making-gas-our-smallest-neighbors/ (accessed October 30, 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

[1]

Government Accountability Office, Alternative Jet Fuels: Federal Activities Support Development and Usage, but Long-term Commercial Viability Hinges on Market Factors, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2014.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

J.D. Bryan, Team development social networking and its impact on the encouragement of spiritual leadership, Doctoral dissertation, University of Phoenix, 2009.

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

[1]

L. Greenhouse, On Court That Defied Labeling, Kennedy Made the Boldest Mark, New York Times (2008) A1.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Fish and Shellfish Immunology
Abbreviation	Fish Shellfish Immunol.
ISSN (print)	1050-4648
Scope	Aquatic Science Environmental Chemistry General Medicine