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

Robock, A.

2008. Atmospheric science. Whither geoengineering? Science 320:1166–1167

A journal article with 2 authors

Müller, U.K., and Lentink, D.

2004. Physiology. Turning on a dime. Science 306:1899–1900

A journal article with 3 authors

Ash, C., Foley, J., and Pennisi, E.

2008. Microbial ecology. Lost in microbial space. Special section introduction. Science 320:1027

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Bessell, P.R., Auty, H.K., Searle, K.R., Handel, I.G., Purse, B.V., and de C Bronsvoort, B.M.

2014. Impact of temperature, feeding preference and vaccination on Schmallenberg virus transmission in Scotland. Sci. Rep. 4:5746

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Scharf, T.

2006. Polarized Light in Liquid Crystals and Polymers. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Whitacre, D.M., ed

2013. Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology. Springer, New York, NY., Vol. 225

A chapter in an edited book

Saeki, T., and Kawano, M.

2016. Does IgG4-Related Disease Have an Autoimmune Basis? In IgG4-Related Kidney Disease (Saito, T., J.H. Stone, H. Nakashima, T. Saeki, and M. Kawano, eds). p. 55–63. Springer Japan, Tokyo.

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

Carpineti, A.

2016, October 19. Astronomers Produce Detailed Map Of Hydrogen In The Milky Way. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/astronomers-produce-detailed-map-of-hydrogen-in-the-milky-way/

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

1997. Income Security Issue Area: Active Assignments (No. AA-97-11(3)). 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

Altiparmak, F.

2008. Online Management and Mining of Heteregenous and Dynamic Time Series (Doctoral dissertation). Ohio State University, Columbus, OH.

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

Donohue, J.J., Iii, and Schoening, M.

2017, January 9. The Grim Reaper of Alabama. New York Times. p. A17., p. A17

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Robock, 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Müller and Lentink, 2004; Robock, 2008).

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

Two authors: (Müller and Lentink, 2004)
Three authors: (Ash, Foley, and Pennisi, 2008)
4 or more authors: (Bessell et al., 2014)

About the journal

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