How to format your references using the Journal of Fish Biology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Fish Biology. 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

Smaglik, P. (2002). Taking stock of biotech jobs. Nature, 417, 3.

A journal article with 2 authors

Mackenzie, A. P., & Grigera, S. A. (2005). Physics. A quantum critical route to field-induced superconductivity. Science (New York, N.Y.), 309, 1330–1331.

A journal article with 3 authors

Dong, Z., Hoven, C. W., & Rosenfield, A. (2005). Lessons from the past. Nature, 433, 573–574.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Xie, S. P., Liu, W. T., Liu, Q., & Nonaka, M. (2001). Far-reaching effects of the Hawaiian Islands on the Pacific Ocean-atmosphere system. Science (New York, N.Y.), 292, 2057–2060.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Stack, T., Ostrom, L. T., & Wilhelmsen, C. A. (2016). Occupational Ergonomics. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

(2012). Solar Flare Magnetic Fields and Plasmas. Y. Fan & G. Fisher (Eds.). New York, NY: Springer US.

A chapter in an edited book

Negrini, M., & Calin, G. A. (2010). Involvement of MicroRNAs in Human Cancer: Discovery and Expression Profiling. In W. C. S. Cho (Ed.), An Omics Perspective on Cancer Research (pp. 69–104). Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

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 Journal of Fish Biology.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015). Could Yeast Be The New Hero Of Biomedical Research? https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/could-yeast-be-new-hero-biomedical-research/ (accessed Oct 30, 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. (1990). Telecommunications: Issues Concerning Licensing of Telecommunications Engineers and Technicians. RCED-90-106FS. 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

Sever, R. S. (2017). A Quantitative Descriptive Study Using the Theoretical Domains Framework to Investigate and Compare the Psychotropic Medication Prescribing Behavior of Primary Care Prescribers (Doctoral dissertation). Northcentral University, Scottsdale, AZ.

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

Vecsey, G. (2010). Foot in the Door. New York Times. June 30, 2010, p. B10.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Smaglik, 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Mackenzie & Grigera, 2005; Smaglik, 2002).

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

Two authors: (Mackenzie & Grigera, 2005)
Three or more authors: (Xie et al., 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Fish Biology
Abbreviation	J. Fish Biol.
ISSN (print)	0022-1112
ISSN (online)	1095-8649
Scope	Aquatic Science Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics