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

Smil, V., V. 2000. Jumbo. Nature 406(6793):239.

A journal article with 2 authors

Mirabel, I. F., and I. Rodrigues. 2003. Formation of a black hole in the dark. Science (New York, N.Y.) 300(5622):1119–1120.

A journal article with 3 authors

Germain, R. N., E. A. Robey, and M. D. Cahalan. 2012. A decade of imaging cellular motility and interaction dynamics in the immune system. Science (New York, N.Y.) 336(6089):1676–1681.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Wu, W., C. Wang, Q. Li, C. Ye, J. Qin, and Z. Li. 2014. The influence of pentafluorophenyl groups on the nonlinear optical (NLO) performance of high generation dendrons and dendrimers. Scientific reports 4:6101.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

West, B. J., and L. A. Griffin. 2005. Biodynamics. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Saliot, A., editor. 2005. The Mediterranean Sea. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Kaltschmitt, M., W. Streicher, and A. Wiese. 2007. Solar Thermal Heat Utilisation. Pages 123–170 in M. Kaltschmitt, W. Streicher, and A. Wiese, editors. Renewable Energy: Technology, and Environment Economics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

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

Carpineti, A. 2016, September 8. Dark Matter May Have Punched Huge Holes In A Stream Of Stars. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/dark-matter-may-have-punched-huge-holes-in-a-stream-of-stars/.

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. 1997. FASAB Volume 1 Original Statements: Statements of Federal Financial Accounting Concepts and Standards. U.S. Government Printing Office, AIMD-21.1.1, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Anderson, S. L. 2008. Ninth grade transition: Best practices for a successful transition to high school. Doctoral dissertation, Capella University, Minneapolis, MN.

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

Walsh, M. W. 2015, September 15. Hispanic Contingent in Congress Asks Treasury to Prevent ‘Catastrophe’ in Puerto Rico. New York Times:B3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Smil 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Smil 2000; Mirabel and Rodrigues 2003).

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

Two authors: (Mirabel and Rodrigues 2003)
Three or more authors: (Wu et al. 2014)

About the journal

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