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

Guzmán, M.G.

2005. Global voices of science. Deciphering dengue: the Cuban experience. Science 309:1495–1497

A journal article with 2 authors

Retchless, A.C., and Lawrence, J.G.

2007. Temporal fragmentation of speciation in bacteria. Science 317:1093–1096

A journal article with 3 authors

Moon-van der Staay, S.Y., De Wachter, R., and Vaulot, D.

2001. Oceanic 18S rDNA sequences from picoplankton reveal unsuspected eukaryotic diversity. Nature 409:607–610

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Gohle, C., Udem, T., Herrmann, M., Rauschenberger, J., Holzwarth, R., Schuessler, H.A., Krausz, F., and Hänsch, T.W.

2005. A frequency comb in the extreme ultraviolet. Nature 436:234–237

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Dacey, J.S., Mack, M.D., and Fiore, L.B.

2016. Your Anxious Child. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Susilo, W., and Mu, Y., eds

2014. Information Security and Privacy: 19th Australasian Conference, ACISP 2014, Wollongong, NSW, Australia, July 7-9, 2014. Proceedings. Springer International Publishing, Cham., Vol. 8544

A chapter in an edited book

Johnson, M.R.

2015. A Primer on Economic Choice Automata. In Individual and Collective Choice and Social Welfare: Essays in Honor of Nick Baigent (Binder, C., G. Codognato, M. Teschl, and Y. Xu, eds). p. 65–94. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

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

Luntz, S.

2014, June 5. Bizarre “Hybrid” Star Found. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/bizarre-hybrid-star-found/

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

2006. Abstinence Education: Efforts to Assess the Accuracy and Effectiveness of Federally Funded Programs (No. GAO-07-87). 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

Khojandi, N.

2017. Investigating Secondary Infections and their Impact on Host Fitness in the Dictyostelium-Burkholderia Symbiosis System (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

Poniewozik, J.

2016, October 25. A Chance to Be Reborn After Years Behind Bars. New York Times. p. C6., p. C6

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Guzmán, 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Guzmán, 2005; Retchless and Lawrence, 2007).

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

Two authors: (Retchless and Lawrence, 2007)
Three authors: (Moon-van der Staay, De Wachter, and Vaulot, 2001)
4 or more authors: (Gohle et al., 2005)

About the journal

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