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

Wills, M. 2006. Chemistry. Better asymmetric reactions. Science (New York, N.Y.) 311(5761):619–620.

A journal article with 2 authors

Osteryoung, K. W., and J. Nunnari. 2003. The division of endosymbiotic organelles. Science (New York, N.Y.) 302(5651):1698–1704.

A journal article with 3 authors

Song, B.-S., S. Noda, and T. Asano. 2003. Photonic devices based on in-plane hetero photonic crystals. Science (New York, N.Y.) 300(5625):1537.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Xing, Q., K. Yates, C. Vogt, Z. Qian, M. C. Frost, and F. Zhao. 2014. Increasing mechanical strength of gelatin hydrogels by divalent metal ion removal. Scientific reports 4:4706.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Weinberg, S. 2011. Cost-Contained Regulatory Compliance. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Grimm, C., P. Neumann, and S. Mahlknecht, editors. 2013. Embedded Systems for Smart Appliances and Energy Management. Springer, New York, NY.

A chapter in an edited book

Tscherning, H., and L. Mathiassen. 2010. The Role of Social Networks in Early Adoption of Mobile Devices. Pages 52–70 in J. Pries-Heje, J. Venable, D. Bunker, N. L. Russo, and J. I. DeGross, editors. Human Benefit through the Diffusion of Information Systems Design Science Research: IFIP WG 8.2/8.6 International Working Conference, Perth, Australia, March 30 – April 1, 2010. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

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

Andrew, E. 2014, December 9. Seven Sperm Whales Mysteriously Found Dead On Australian Beach. 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. 1999. Acquisition Reform: NASA’s Internet Service Improves Access to Contracting Information. U.S. Government Printing Office, NSIAD-99-37, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Weisko, P. 2017. Wading Tiger Swimming Dragon: A Study on Comparative Indo-Sino Naval Development. Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University, Washington, DC.

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

Wagner, J. 2017, October 6. Dominican Players Hone Skills With AidOf Broomsticks. New York Times:SP1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Wills 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Osteryoung and Nunnari 2003; Wills 2006).

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

Two authors: (Osteryoung and Nunnari 2003)
Three or more authors: (Xing et al. 2014)

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