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

Diebold AC (2005) Applied physics. Subsurface imaging with scanning ultrasound holography. Science 310:61–62

A journal article with 2 authors

Malin MC, Edgett KS (2003) Evidence for persistent flow and aqueous sedimentation on early Mars. Science 302:1931–1934

A journal article with 3 authors

Steinberger B, Sutherland R, O’Connell RJ (2004) Prediction of Emperor-Hawaii seamount locations from a revised model of global plate motion and mantle flow. Nature 430:167–173

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Berriman AC, Hinde DJ, Dasgupta M, et al (2001) Unexpected inhibition of fusion in nucleus-nucleus collisions. Nature 413:144–147

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Lamattina JL (2012) Devalued and Distrusted. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Godemann J, Michelsen G (2011) Sustainability Communication: Interdisciplinary Perspectives and Theoretical Foundation. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht

A chapter in an edited book

Agrawal S, Sureka A (2013) Copyright Infringement Detection of Music Videos on YouTube by Mining Video and Uploader Meta-data. In: Bhatnagar V, Srinivasa S (eds) Big Data Analytics: Second International Conference, BDA 2013, Mysore, India, December 16-18, 2013, Proceedings. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 48–67

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

Fang J (2015) Vibrating Magnets Help Male Bees Attract Females From Different Subspecies. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/vibrating-magnets-help-male-bees-attract-females-different-subspecies/. 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 (1971) Criteria Needed for Measuring Technical Assistance Results and Contractor Performance. 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

Connelly J (2010) A tradition of excellence transitions to the 21 st century: Hungarian mathematics education, 1988-2008. Doctoral dissertation, Columbia University

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

Saslow L (2007) Board Renewing Searches By Trained Dogs at School. New York Times 14LI2

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