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

Abbott A (2003) British panel bans use of antidepressant to treat children. Nature 423:792

A journal article with 2 authors

Fraser P, Bickmore W (2007) Nuclear organization of the genome and the potential for gene regulation. Nature 447:413–417

A journal article with 3 authors

Powner MW, Gerland B, Sutherland JD (2009) Synthesis of activated pyrimidine ribonucleotides in prebiotically plausible conditions. Nature 459:239–242

A journal article with 5 or more authors

He Y, Li H, Jiang Y, et al (2014) Liquid-liquid phase transition and structure inheritance in carbon films. Sci Rep 4:3635

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Stoker JJ (1988) Differential Geometry. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Rao NKS, Shivashankara KS, Laxman RH (2016) Abiotic Stress Physiology of Horticultural Crops. Springer India, New Delhi

A chapter in an edited book

Tjoa T, Armstrong WB (2016) Transoral Laser Microsurgery for Laryngeal Cancer. In: Wong BJ-F, Ilgner J (eds) Biomedical Optics in Otorhinolaryngology: Head and Neck Surgery. Springer, New York, NY, pp 51–66

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

Andrew E (2016) There Be Dragons? Creatures You Might Find On A Real Journey To The Centre Of The Earth. In: IFLScience. 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 (1977) Comments on Proposed Legislation to Prohibit the Discharging of Fuel at Sea. 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

Amini B (2015) Linear Matrix Inequality Method for Periodic Systems. Doctoral dissertation, Southern Illinois 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) Bill Would Make Offenders Share Probation Costs. New York Times LI2

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