How to format your references using the Fisheries Science citation style

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

Bader J (2014) Climate science: The origin of regional Arctic warming. Nature 509:167–168

A journal article with 2 authors

Smit B, Maesen TLM (2008) Towards a molecular understanding of shape selectivity. Nature 451:671–678

A journal article with 3 authors

Erickson B, Singh R, Winters P (2011) Synthetic biology: regulating industry uses of new biotechnologies. Science 333:1254–1256

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Makiuchi T, Mi-ichi F, Nakada-Tsukui K, Nozaki T (2013) Novel TPR-containing subunit of TOM complex functions as cytosolic receptor for Entamoeba mitosomal transport. Sci Rep 3:1129

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ramirez J (2015) Accounting for Derivatives. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Bansal N, Finocchi I (2015) Algorithms - ESA 2015: 23rd Annual European Symposium, Patras, Greece, September 14-16, 2015, Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Kotulski Z, Szczepiński W (2010) Two-dimensional Distributions. In: Szczepinski W (ed) Error Analysis with Applications in Engineering. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp 107–147

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 Science.

Blog post

Luntz S (2015) Scientists Find Traces Of Enormous Solar Storms That Once Hit The Earth. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/traces-giant-solar-storms-found/. 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 (2002) Transportation Infrastructure: Alternative Financing Mechanisms for Surface Transportation. 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

Kim EH (2010) A personal narrative of a Korean immigrant to the United States: A quest for finding a niche. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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

Megalogenis G (2017) Australia’s leftward turn. New York Times 0

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1, 2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Fisheries Science
Abbreviation	Fish. Sci.
ISSN (print)	0919-9268
ISSN (online)	1444-2906
Scope	Aquatic Science