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

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

Macfarlane, R. (2013). Environment: New words on the wild. Nature, 498(7453), 166–167.

A journal article with 2 authors

Asimow, P. D., & Langmuir, C. H. (2003). The importance of water to oceanic mantle melting regimes. Nature, 421(6925), 815–820.

A journal article with 3 authors

Polyak, V., Hill, C., & Asmerom, Y. (2008). Age and evolution of the Grand Canyon revealed by U-Pb dating of water table-type speleothems. Science (New York, N.Y.), 319(5868), 1377–1380.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Tuteja, A., Choi, W., Ma, M., Mabry, J. M., Mazzella, S. A., Rutledge, G. C., McKinley, G. H., & Cohen, R. E. (2007). Designing superoleophobic surfaces. Science (New York, N.Y.), 318(5856), 1618–1622.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Cumming, D. (2010). Private Equity. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Jawahar, C. V., & Shan, S. (Eds.). (2015). Computer Vision - ACCV 2014 Workshops: Singapore, Singapore, November 1-2, 2014, Revised Selected Papers, Part I (Vol. 9008). Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Hongjian, G. A. O., Chunlan, Y. A. N. G., Lei, Z. H. A. O., Haiming, A. I., Shuicai, W. U., Zhiggang, C. H. E. N. G., & Ping, L. I. A. N. G. (2010). Design and Implementation of Liver Hyperthermia Treatment Planning System. In O. Dössel & W. C. Schlegel (Eds.), World Congress on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, September 7 - 12, 2009, Munich, Germany: Vol. 25/4 Image Processing, Biosignal Processing, Modelling and Simulation, Biomechanics (pp. 17–20). Springer.

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 Diseases.

Blog post

Davis, J. (2015, August 24). New Species Of Monkey Discovered In The Remote Peruvian Rainforest. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/new-species-titi-monkey-discovered-remote-amazonian-peru/

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. (1996). Central Artery/Tunnel Project: Cost and Financing (T-RCED-96-218). 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

Viruet, H. B. (2006). Effect of Forklift Operation on Lower Back Pain: An Evidence-Based Approach [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Cincinnati.

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

Villarosa, L. (2007, May 1). The Wheezing That Could Signal Childhood Asthma. New York Times, H2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Macfarlane, 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Asimow & Langmuir, 2003; Macfarlane, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Asimow & Langmuir, 2003)
Three authors: (Polyak et al., 2008)
6 or more authors: (Tuteja et al., 2007)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Fish Diseases
Abbreviation	J. Fish Dis.
ISSN (print)	0140-7775
ISSN (online)	1365-2761
Scope	Aquatic Science Veterinary (miscalleneous)