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

Snell, W. J. 2012. Development. Plant gametes do fertilization with a twist. Science (New York, N.Y.) 338(6110):1038–1039.

A journal article with 2 authors

Reineke, S., and M. A. Baldo. 2014. Room temperature triplet state spectroscopy of organic semiconductors. Scientific reports 4:3797.

A journal article with 3 authors

Maurer, S. M., R. B. Firestone, and C. R. Scriver. 2000. Science’s neglected legacy. Nature 405(6783):117–120.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Starai, V. J., I. Celic, R. N. Cole, J. D. Boeke, and J. C. Escalante-Semerena. 2002. Sir2-dependent activation of acetyl-CoA synthetase by deacetylation of active lysine. Science (New York, N.Y.) 298(5602):2390–2392.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Tran, J. 2010. The Vietnam War and Theologies of Memory. Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK.

An edited book

Udomkichdecha, W., T. Böllinghaus, A. Manonukul, and J. Lexow, editors. 2014. Materials Challenges and Testing for Manufacturing, Mobility, Biomedical Applications and Climate. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Tachikawa, M., V. Ganapathy, and K.-I. Hosoya. 2011. Systemic Route for Retinal Drug Delivery: Role of the Blood-Retinal Barrier. Pages 85–109 in U. B. Kompella and H. F. Edelhauser, editors. Drug Product Development for the Back of the Eye. 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

Fang, J. 2015, June 11. Polar Bears Are Eating Dolphins And Freezing The Leftovers. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/polar-bears-are-now-eating-white-beaked-dolphins-and-saving-leftovers/.

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. 1979. Comments on “The Government Can Be More Productive in Collecting Its Debts by Following Commercial Practices.” U.S. Government Printing Office, B-194920, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Perfitt, T. 2009. Megaphone: Fault tolerant, scalable, and trustworthy peer-to-peer microblogging. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Vecsey, G. 2010, September 13. Empty Gray Gives Way to Blues and Boos, Just Like Before. New York Times:D7.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Snell 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Snell 2012; Reineke and Baldo 2014).

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

Two authors: (Reineke and Baldo 2014)
Three or more authors: (Starai et al. 2002)

About the journal

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