How to format your references using the Fish Physiology and Biochemistry citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Fish Physiology and Biochemistry. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Ward C (2000) Regenesis. Nature 404:708

A journal article with 2 authors

Page MT, Hough SE (2014) The New Madrid Seismic Zone: not dead yet. Science 343:762–764

A journal article with 3 authors

Furey ML, Pietrini P, Haxby JV (2000) Cholinergic enhancement and increased selectivity of perceptual processing during working memory. Science 290:2315–2319

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Greenhagen BT, Lucey PG, Wyatt MB, et al (2010) Global silicate mineralogy of the Moon from the Diviner lunar radiometer. Science 329:1507–1509

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Coe JT (2000) Unlikely Victory: How General Electric Succeeded in the Chemical Industry. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Morava E, Baumgartner M, Patterson M, et al (eds) (2016) JIMD Reports, Volume 30, 1st ed. 2016. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Chincholkar S, Patil S, Sarode P, Rane M (2013) Fermentative Production of Bacterial Phenazines. In: Chincholkar S, Thomashow L (eds) Microbial Phenazines: Biosynthesis, Agriculture and Health. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 89–100

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 Physiology and Biochemistry.

Blog post

Andrew E (2014) New Dinosaur Discovered, Nicknamed “Chicken From Hell.” In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/new-dinosaur-discovered-nicknamed-chicken-hell/. 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 (2008) Social Security Administration Field Offices: Reduced Workforce Faces Challenges as Baby Boomers Retire. 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

Torres MF (2009) The effect of mergers and acquisitions in the information technology organizational structures. Doctoral dissertation, University of Phoenix

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

Romero S (2015) China’s Halting Forays Into Latin America. New York Times A6

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Ward 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Ward 2000; Page and Hough 2014).

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

Two authors: (Page and Hough 2014)
Three or more authors: (Greenhagen et al. 2010)

About the journal

Full journal title	Fish Physiology and Biochemistry
Abbreviation	Fish Physiol. Biochem.
ISSN (print)	0920-1742
ISSN (online)	1573-5168
Scope	Aquatic Science Biochemistry Physiology General Medicine