How to format your references using the Fishery Bulletin citation style

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

Wan, Z.

2015. China’s scientific progress hinges on access to data. Nature 520:587

A journal article with 2 authors

Wuchty, S., and Uetz, P.

2014. Protein-protein Interaction Networks of E. coli and S. cerevisiae are similar. Sci. Rep. 4:7187

A journal article with 3 authors

Tanner, C., Manca, C., and Leutwyler, S.

2003. Probing the threshold to H atom transfer along a hydrogen-bonded ammonia wire. Science 302:1736–1739

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Kimura, J., Ichii, O., Miyazono, K., Nakamura, T., Horino, T., Otsuka-Kanazawa, S., and Kon, Y.

2014. Overexpression of Toll-like receptor 8 correlates with the progression of podocyte injury in murine autoimmune glomerulonephritis. Sci. Rep. 4:7290

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Prutchi, D., and Prutchi, S.R.

2012. Exploring Quantum Physics Through Hands-On Projects. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Carlsson, C.

2011. Possibility for Decision: A Possibilistic Approach to Real Life Decisions. (R. Fullér, ed.). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg., Vol. 270

A chapter in an edited book

Nemerson, Y., and Taubman, M.B.

2006. Thrombosis. In Essential Cardiology: Principles and Practice (Rosendorff, C., ed). p. 77–83. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ.

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 Fishery Bulletin.

Blog post

Hale, T.

2016, April 29. A Man Switched A Helicopter Engine Off Mid-Flight To Prove A Point. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/physics/man-lands-helicopter-engine-settle-debate-degrasse-tyson/

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

1999. Federal Communications Commission: Direct Broadcast Satellite Public Interest Obligations (No. OGC-99-32). Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Lefebvre, K.

2017. Racial Prejudice, Individualism, and Political Identity: Understanding the Forty-Year Trend of Anti-Welfare Spending Preferences (Doctoral dissertation). Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, IL.

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

Brantley, B.

2017, August 25. A Prince’s Kingdom is Scattered to the Winds. New York Times. p. C1., p. C1

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Wan, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Wuchty and Uetz, 2014; Wan, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Wuchty and Uetz, 2014)
Three authors: (Tanner, Manca, and Leutwyler, 2003)
4 or more authors: (Kimura et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Fishery Bulletin
Abbreviation	Fish. Bull. (Wash. D.C.)
ISSN (print)	0090-0656
Scope	Aquatic Science