How to format your references using the Fisheries citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Fisheries. 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

Fauci, A. S. 2005. Race against time. Nature 435(7041):423–424.

A journal article with 2 authors

Silberzahn, R., and E. L. Uhlmann. 2015. Crowdsourced research: Many hands make tight work. Nature 526(7572):189–191.

A journal article with 3 authors

Echtay, K. S., E. Winkler, and M. Klingenberg. 2000. Coenzyme Q is an obligatory cofactor for uncoupling protein function. Nature 408(6812):609–613.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Neil, H., C. Malabat, Y. d’Aubenton-Carafa, Z. Xu, L. M. Steinmetz, and A. Jacquier. 2009. Widespread bidirectional promoters are the major source of cryptic transcripts in yeast. Nature 457(7232):1038–1042.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Rochange, C., S. Uhrig, and P. Sainrat. 2013. Time-Predictable Architectures. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Brameier, M. F. 2007. Linear Genetic Programming. Page W. Banzhaf, editor. Springer US, Boston, MA.

A chapter in an edited book

Li, D., W. Winsborough, M. Winslett, and R. Hasan. 2008. Database Issues in Trust Management and Trust Negotiation. Pages 73–113 in M. Gertz and S. Jajodia, editors. Handbook of Database Security: Applications and Trends. Springer US, Boston, MA.

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 Fisheries.

Blog post

Andrew, D. 2017, January 5. Look Up! Your Guide To Some Of The Best Meteor Showers For 2017. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/look-up-your-guide-to-some-of-the-best-meteor-showers-for-2017/.

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. 2003. Opportunities for Oversight and Improved Use of Taxpayer Funds: Examples from Selected GAO Work. U.S. Government Printing Office, GAO-03-1006, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Stone, M. A. 2008. A quantitative study of perceptions of female Air Force leaders. Doctoral dissertation, University of Phoenix, Phoenix, AZ.

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

Risen, J. 2017, February 7. John Platt, 80, U.S. Spy Who Befriended Foe. New York Times:B12.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Fauci 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Fauci 2005; Silberzahn and Uhlmann 2015).

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

Two authors: (Silberzahn and Uhlmann 2015)
Three or more authors: (Neil et al. 2009)

About the journal

Full journal title	Fisheries
Abbreviation	Fisheries
ISSN (print)	0363-2415
ISSN (online)	1548-8446
Scope	Aquatic Science Nature and Landscape Conservation