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

Honjo T (2004) Obituary: Yasutomi Nishizuka (1932-2004). Nature 432:966

A journal article with 2 authors

Zitvogel L, Kroemer G (2015) CANCER. A p53-regulated immune checkpoint relevant to cancer. Science 349:476–477

A journal article with 3 authors

Dally JM, Emery NJ, Clayton NS (2006) Food-caching western scrub-jays keep track of who was watching when. Science 312:1662–1665

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Piao S, Ciais P, Huang Y, et al (2010) The impacts of climate change on water resources and agriculture in China. Nature 467:43–51

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Alberty RA (2006) Biochemical Thermodynamics: Applications of Mathmatica. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Owusu G, O’Brien P, McCall J, Doherty NF (eds) (2013) Transforming Field and Service Operations: Methodologies for Successful Technology-Driven Business Transformation. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Diao L, Wang D, Peng Z, Guo L (2015) Neural Dynamic Surface Control for Three-Phase PWM Voltage Source Rectifier. In: Hu X, Xia Y, Zhang Y, Zhao D (eds) Advances in Neural Networks – ISNN 2015: 12th International Symposium on Neural Networks, ISNN 2015, Jeju, South Korea, October 15-18, 2015, Proceedings. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 28–35

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) Millions Of Spiders Fleeing Floods Embellish Land With Spectacular Webs. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/millions-spiders-fleeing-floods-embellish-land-spectacular-webs/. 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 (1984) Status of Budget Authority Proposed for Rescission. 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

Kratovac S (2012) Developmental alterations in inhibitory neurotransmission in the Fragile X Syndrome mouse basolateral amygdala. Doctoral dissertation, University of Maryland, College Park

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

Kenigsberg B (2017) Film Series. New York Times C20

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Honjo 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Honjo 2004; Zitvogel and Kroemer 2015).

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

Two authors: (Zitvogel and Kroemer 2015)
Three or more authors: (Piao 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