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

Evans, R. (2012). Wylie Walker Vale Jr (1941-2012). Nature, 483(7391), 542.

A journal article with 2 authors

Yandulov, D. V., & Schrock, R. R. (2003). Catalytic reduction of dinitrogen to ammonia at a single molybdenum center. Science (New York, N.Y.), 301(5629), 76–78.

A journal article with 3 authors

Goddard, M. R., Godfray, H. C. J., & Burt, A. (2005). Sex increases the efficacy of natural selection in experimental yeast populations. Nature, 434(7033), 636–640.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Loll, B., Kern, J., Saenger, W., Zouni, A., & Biesiadka, J. (2005). Towards complete cofactor arrangement in the 3.0 A resolution structure of photosystem II. Nature, 438(7070), 1040–1044.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Stamp, M. (2005). Information Security. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

McCluggage, W. G. (2014). Cellular Pathology of Glandular Lesions and Uncommon Neoplasms of the Cervix (J. Tidy & J. H. F. Smith, Eds.). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Stanley, J. (2016). A Future Not So Golden: Liberalization, Mechanization and Conflict in Arni’s Gold Ornaments Cluster. In B. Harriss-White (Ed.), Middle India and Urban-Rural Development: Four Decades of Change (pp. 131–150). Springer India.

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

Andrew, E. (2015, February 2). Mathematical Theory Explains Wrinkle Patterning. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/physics/mathematical-theory-explains-wrinkle-patterning/

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. (1994). Longer Combination Trucks: Potential Infrastructure Impacts, Productivity Benefits, and Safety Concerns (RCED-94-106). 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

Hendricks, E. D. (2010). Teaching teachers: A study of teacher educators’ perceptions of the effect of meeting mandated NCATE standards [Doctoral dissertation]. Capella University.

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

St. John Kelly, E. (1994, February 6). PLAYING IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD. New York Times, 1317.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Evans, 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Evans, 2012; Yandulov & Schrock, 2003).

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

Two authors: (Yandulov & Schrock, 2003)
Three or more authors: (Loll et al., 2005)

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)