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]

T.G. Buchman, The community of the self, Nature. 420 (2002) 246–251.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

R.F. Say, G. Fuchs, Fructose 1,6-bisphosphate aldolase/phosphatase may be an ancestral gluconeogenic enzyme, Nature. 464 (2010) 1077–1081.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

T.S. Cubitt, D. Perez-Garcia, M.M. Wolf, Undecidability of the spectral gap, Nature. 528 (2015) 207–211.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

H. Ma, J.R. Ow, B.C.P. Tan, Z. Goh, B. Feng, Y.H. Loh, M. Fedele, H. Li, Q. Wu, The dosage of Patz1 modulates reprogramming process, Sci. Rep. 4 (2014) 7519.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

J.G. Nellist, Understanding Telecommunications and Lightwave Systems, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2005.

An edited book

[1]

J. Dingel, A. Solberg, eds., Models in Software Engineering: Workshops and Symposia at MODELS 2010, Oslo, Norway, October 2-8, 2010, Reports and Revised Selected Papers, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

B.K. Tripathy, M.S. Sishodia, S. Jain, Societal Networks: The Networks of Dynamics of Interpersonal Associations, in: M. Panda, S. Dehuri, G.-N. Wang (Eds.), Social Networking: Mining, Visualization, and Security, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2014: pp. 101–127.

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, Weak Supernova Leaves Behind a Zombie Star, IFLScience. (2014). https://www.iflscience.com/space/weak-supernova-leaves-behind-zombie-star/ (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, Aviation Security: Transportation Security Administration Faces Immediate and Long-Term Challenges, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2002.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

K.E. Colna, Latitudinal Position and Trends of the Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ) and its Relationship with Upwelling in the Southern Caribbean Sea and Global Climate Indices, Doctoral dissertation, University of South Florida, 2017.

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]

S. Kishkovsky, Russian Troops Seal Off Town In Search for Chechen Rebels, New York Times. (2002) 13.

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