How to format your references using the Fishes citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Fishes. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Bell, S.P. DNA Replication. Terminating the Replisome. Science 2014, 346, 418–419.

A journal article with 2 authors

King-Jones, K.; Thummel, C.S. Developmental Biology. Less Steroids Make Bigger Flies. Science 2005, 310, 630–631.

A journal article with 3 authors

Madhu, R.; Veeramani, V.; Chen, S.-M. Heteroatom-Enriched and Renewable Banana-Stem-Derived Porous Carbon for the Electrochemical Determination of Nitrite in Various Water Samples. Sci. Rep. 2014, 4, 4679.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Wang, Z.; Yu, S.; Fan, H.; Oh, C.H. Quantum Error Correction Assisted by Two-Way Noisy Communication. Sci. Rep. 2014, 4, 7203.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Goudon, T. Mathematics for Modeling and Scientific Computing; John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ, 2016; ISBN 9781119371120.

An edited book

Computing and Combinatorics: 14th Annual International Conference, COCOON 2008 Dalian, China, June 27-29, 2008 Proceedings; Hu, X., Wang, J., Eds.; Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2008; Vol. 5092; ISBN 9783540697329.

A chapter in an edited book

Grimson, R. An Efficient Algorithm for the Sign Condition Problem in the Semi-Algebraic Context. In Advances in Geometric Modeling and Processing: 6th International Conference, GMP 2010, Castro Urdiales, Spain, June 16-18, 2010. Proceedings; Mourrain, B., Schaefer, S., Xu, G., Eds.; Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2010; pp. 57–76 ISBN 9783642134104.

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 Fishes.

Blog post

Carpineti, A. VISTA Uncovers New Secrets In The Orion Nebula Available online: https://www.iflscience.com/space/vista-uncovers-new-secrets-in-the-orion-nebula/ (accessed on 30 October 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 Applying Agreed-Upon Procedures: Highway Trust Fund Excise Taxes; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 2005;

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Adams, S. A Study of Childhood Eating Habits in the United States and Their Association with Race and Gender. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach: Long Beach, CA, 2013.

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

Van Gelder, S.K.C. by L. Arts, Briefly; “Vagina Monologues” in Moscow. New York Times 2005, B10.

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	Fishes
Abbreviation	G.
ISSN (online)	2410-3888
Scope