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

Buriak, J. M. (2004). Chemistry. Chemistry with nanoscale perfection. Science (New York, N.Y.), 304(5671), 692–693.

A journal article with 2 authors

Schwartz, T. W., & Sakmar, T. P. (2011). Structural biology: snapshot of a signalling complex. Nature, 477(7366), 540–541.

A journal article with 3 authors

Fowler, A. G., Devitt, S. J., & Jones, C. (2013). Surface code implementation of block code state distillation. Scientific Reports, 3, 1939.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Fukasawa, M., Freeland, H., Perkin, R., Watanabe, T., Uchida, H., & Nishina, A. (2004). Bottom water warming in the North Pacific Ocean. Nature, 427(6977), 825–827.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Jäger, W., & Marzahn, G. (2010). Mauerwerk. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Strauss, H. W., Mariani, G., Volterrani, D., & Larson, S. M. (Eds.). (2013). Nuclear Oncology: Pathophysiology and Clinical Applications. Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Quinteiro, P., Almeida, M., Dias, A. C., Araújo, A., & Arroja, L. (2014). The Carbon Footprint of Ceramic Products. In S. S. Muthu (Ed.), Assessment of Carbon Footprint in Different Industrial Sectors, Volume 1 (pp. 113–150). 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

Taub, B. (2016, September 26). Hangover-Free Alcohol Could Replace Normal Booze By 2050. IFLScience; IFLScience.

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. (1997). National Airspace System: Questions Concerning FAA’s Wide Area Augmentation System (RCED-97-219R). 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

Churney, K. (2014). Drawing and multimodality communication training as an effective treatment option for individuals with nonfluent aphasia [Doctoral dissertation]. California State University, Long Beach.

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, October 7). Teamsters Pension Fund Warns 400,000 of Cuts. New York Times, B1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Buriak, 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Buriak, 2004; Schwartz & Sakmar, 2011).

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

Two authors: (Schwartz & Sakmar, 2011)
Three authors: (Fowler et al., 2013)
6 or more authors: (Fukasawa et al., 2004)

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)