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

Keller, E. F. (2007). A clash of two cultures. Nature, 445, 603.

A journal article with 2 authors

Krieg, A. M., & Lipford, G. B. (2008). Immunology. The toll of cathepsin K deficiency. Science (New York, N.Y.), 319, 576–577.

A journal article with 3 authors

Sakai, T., Larsen, M., & Yamada, K. M. (2003). Fibronectin requirement in branching morphogenesis. Nature, 423, 876–881.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Tsuno, S., Wang, X., Shomori, K., Hasegawa, J., & Miura, N. (2014). Hsa-miR-520d induces hepatoma cells to form normal liver tissues via a stemness-mediated process. Scientific reports, 4, 3852.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Halpin, D. W., & Senior, B. A. (2009). Financial Management and Accounting Fundamentals for Construction. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

(2016). Image Analysis and Recognition: 13th International Conference, ICIAR 2016, in Memory of Mohamed Kamel, Póvoa de Varzim, Portugal, July 13-15, 2016, Proceedings. A. Campilho & F. Karray (Eds.). Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Cham: Springer International Publishing. Vol. 9730.

A chapter in an edited book

Moorman, A. V., & Harrison, C. J. (2011). Cytogenetics. In A. S. Advani & H. M. Lazarus (Eds.), Adult Acute Lymphocytic Leukemia: Biology and Treatment (pp. 61–75). Totowa, NJ: Humana Press.

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

Luntz, S. (2014). New Tool Coming In Hunt For Alien Life https://www.iflscience.com/space/new-tool-coming-hunt-alien-life/ (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. (2015). Air Traffic Control: FAA Needs a More Comprehensive Approach to Address Cybersecurity As Agency Transitions to NextGen. GAO-15-370. 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

Johnson, K. C. (2013). Teacher and parent perceptions of classroom experiences of African American male students in a high school alternative program (Doctoral dissertation). Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA.

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

Walsh, M. W. (2015). Risky Moves in the Game of Life Insurance. New York Times. April 12, 2015, p. BU1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Keller, 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Keller, 2007; Krieg & Lipford, 2008).

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

Two authors: (Krieg & Lipford, 2008)
Three or more authors: (Tsuno et al., 2014)

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

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