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

Goodman S (2004) Getting mobile in Europe. Nature 427:868–869

A journal article with 2 authors

De Francesco R, Migliaccio G (2005) Challenges and successes in developing new therapies for hepatitis C. Nature 436:953–960

A journal article with 3 authors

Kurth I, Georgescu RE, O’Donnell ME (2013) A solution to release twisted DNA during chromosome replication by coupled DNA polymerases. Nature 496:119–122

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Bao Z, Yuan X, Duan S, Dong X (2014) Clinical implication of changes in serum adiponectin in patients with hepatogenic diabetes. Sci Rep 4:5560

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Anderson JC, Naeim F (2012) Basic Structural Dynamics. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Blanc-Talon J, Distante C, Philips W, et al (eds) (2016) Advanced Concepts for Intelligent Vision Systems: 17th International Conference, ACIVS 2016, Lecce, Italy, October 24-27, 2016, Proceedings. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Balthazar EJ (2009) The Role of Computed Tomography. In: Balthazar EJ, Megibow AJ, Pozzi Mucelli R (eds) Imaging of the Pancreas: Acute and Chronic Pancreatitis. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 49–77

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

Hamilton K (2016) How Poor NHS Testing And Antibiotic Use Is Creating Super-Strength Cystitis. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/how-poor-nhs-testing-and-antibiotic-use-is-creating-super-strength-cystitis/. 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 (1975) Administration of the Science Education Project “Man: A Course of Study”(MACOS). 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

Truong T (2012) Microfluidics-based system for high-throughput analysis of nitrite in harbor water. 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

Sehgal P (2017) McPhee on McPhee: A Master’s Valedictory Lap. New York Times C3

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Goodman 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Goodman 2004; De Francesco and Migliaccio 2005).

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

Two authors: (De Francesco and Migliaccio 2005)
Three or more authors: (Bao et al. 2014)

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