How to format your references using the Fisheries Research citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Fisheries Research. 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	Download the output style file
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

Barker, P.A., 2007. Atmospheric science. The monsoon’s past. Science 316, 1295–1296.

A journal article with 2 authors

Swetter, S.M., Geller, A.C., 2014. Perspective: catch melanoma early. Nature 515, S117.

A journal article with 3 authors

Haider, B., Häusser, M., Carandini, M., 2013. Inhibition dominates sensory responses in the awake cortex. Nature 493, 97–100.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Wang, B., Matsuoka, S., Carpenter, P.B., Elledge, S.J., 2002. 53BP1, a mediator of the DNA damage checkpoint. Science 298, 1435–1438.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Smith, P., 2016. Structural Design of Buildings. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Mason, J.W. (Ed.), 2008. Exoplanets: Detection, Formation, Properties, Habitability, Springer Praxis Books. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

de los Rios, S., Cabrera-Umpierrez, M.F., Arredondo, M.T., Paramo, M., Tijus, C., Djebbari, E., Mussano, F., Santoro, R., 2015. Living Lab Concept Validation Experiment to Experience COOLTURA in the Cité Des Science et de L’Industrie, in: Antona, M., Stephanidis, C. (Eds.), Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction. Access to the Human Environment and Culture: 9th International Conference, UAHCI 2015, Held as Part of HCI International 2015, Los Angeles, CA, USA, August 2-7, 2015, Proceedings, Part IV, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 41–52.

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 Research.

Blog post

Luntz, S., 2017. Some Shell-Builders Are Benefiting From Ocean Acidification [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/some-shellbuilders-are-benefiting-from-ocean-acidification/ (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 1981. Comments on H.R. 2813 (No. B-202936). 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

Kelleher, A., 2017. Gendered Intent to Turnover Resulting from Workplace Bullying in Nursing and Medical Fields (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

Dinardo, K., 2015. What Tim Cope Learned from the Nomads. New York Times TR3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Barker, 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Barker, 2007; Swetter and Geller, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Swetter and Geller, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Wang et al., 2002)

About the journal

Full journal title	Fisheries Research
Abbreviation	Fish. Res.
ISSN (print)	0165-7836
Scope	Aquatic Science