How to format your references using the North American Journal of Fisheries Management citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for North American Journal of Fisheries Management. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Rahmstorf, S. 2007. A semi-empirical approach to projecting future sea-level rise. Science (New York, N.Y.) 315(5810):368–370.

A journal article with 2 authors

Devanna, P., and S. C. Vernes. 2014. A direct molecular link between the autism candidate gene RORa and the schizophrenia candidate MIR137. Scientific reports 4:3994.

A journal article with 3 authors

Reber, M., P. Burrola, and G. Lemke. 2004. A relative signalling model for the formation of a topographic neural map. Nature 431(7010):847–853.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Kanadia, R. N., K. A. Johnstone, A. Mankodi, C. Lungu, C. A. Thornton, D. Esson, A. M. Timmers, W. W. Hauswirth, and M. S. Swanson. 2003. A muscleblind knockout model for myotonic dystrophy. Science (New York, N.Y.) 302(5652):1978–1980.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Van Der Pijl, P., L. K. Solomon, and J. Lokitz. 2016. How To Design a Better Business. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Platt, U. 2008. Differential Optical Absorption Spectroscopy: Principles and Applications. Page J. Stutz, editor. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Liza, F. F., and M. Grześ. 2016. Estimating the Accuracy of Spectral Learning for HMMs. Pages 46–56 in C. Dichev and G. Agre, editors. Artificial Intelligence: Methodology, Systems, and Applications: 17th International Conference, AIMSA 2016, Varna, Bulgaria, September 7-10, 2016, Proceedings. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

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 North American Journal of Fisheries Management.

Blog post

O`Callaghan, J. 2016, June 14. British Astronaut Tim Peake Is Returning To Earth This Weekend. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/british-astronaut-tim-peake-is-returning-to-earth-this-weekend/.

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. 2010. Cybersecurity: Key Challenges Need to Be Addressed to Improve Research and Development. U.S. Government Printing Office, GAO-10-466, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Othmanawny, G. 2017. Soaked and Unsoaked Performance of Crushed Gravel and Limestone Aggregates. Doctoral dissertation, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, IL.

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. 1997, October 12. Have Guitar, Will Picket. New York Times:148.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Rahmstorf 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Rahmstorf 2007; Devanna and Vernes 2014).

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

Two authors: (Devanna and Vernes 2014)
Three or more authors: (Kanadia et al. 2003)

About the journal

Full journal title	North American Journal of Fisheries Management
Abbreviation	N. Am. J. Fish. Manag.
ISSN (print)	0275-5947
ISSN (online)	1548-8675
Scope	Aquatic Science Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics Ecology Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law