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

Kendall K (2000) Hydrocarbon fuels. Hopes for a flame-free future. Nature 404:233, 235

A journal article with 2 authors

Cheetham AK, Rao CNR (2007) Materials science. There’s room in the middle. Science 318:58–59

A journal article with 3 authors

Moritz CT, Perlmutter SI, Fetz EE (2008) Direct control of paralysed muscles by cortical neurons. Nature 456:639–642

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Tirichine L, Sandal N, Madsen LH, et al (2007) A gain-of-function mutation in a cytokinin receptor triggers spontaneous root nodule organogenesis. Science 315:104–107

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Barbaroux P, Attour A, Schenk E (2016) Knowledge Management and Innovation. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Kim H-J (2016) Clinical Anatomy of the Face for Filler and Botulinum Toxin Injection. Springer, Singapore

A chapter in an edited book

Kiayias A, Xu S, Yung M (2008) Privacy Preserving Data Mining within Anonymous Credential Systems. In: Ostrovsky R, Prisco RD, Visconti I (eds) Security and Cryptography for Networks: 6th International Conference, SCN 2008, Amalfi, Italy, September 10-12, 2008. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 57–76

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 (2017) Focus On Temperature Ignores Other Ways To Take The Planet’s Pulse. In: IFLScience. 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 (2015) Surface Transportation Security: TSA Has Taken Steps Designed to Develop Processes for Sharing and Analyzing Information and to Improve Rail Security Incident Reporting. 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

Borchardt GM (2013) Making D.C. Democracy’s Capital: Local Activism, the “Federal State”, and the Struggle for Civil Rights in Washington, D.C. Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University

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

Grynbaum MM, Victor D (2017) Fox News Retracts Theory On Killing of D.N.C. Aide. New York Times B1

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Kendall 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Kendall 2000; Cheetham and Rao 2007).

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

Two authors: (Cheetham and Rao 2007)
Three or more authors: (Tirichine et al. 2007)

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