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

Turekian, K. K. 2003. Obituary: Harmon Craig (1926-2003). Nature 423(6941):701.

A journal article with 2 authors

Jernvall, J., and M. Fortelius. 2002. Common mammals drive the evolutionary increase of hypsodonty in the Neogene. Nature 417(6888):538–540.

A journal article with 3 authors

Liu, Y.-Y., J.-J. Slotine, and A.-L. Barabási. 2011. Controllability of complex networks. Nature 473(7346):167–173.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Schöck, F., J. Reischl, E. Wimmer, H. Taubert, B. A. Purnell, and H. Jäckle. 2000. Phenotypic suppression of empty spiracles is prevented by buttonhead. Nature 405(6784):351–354.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Zhang, P. G., and T. Chan. 2011. The Chinese Yuan. John Wiley & Sons (Asia) Pte. Ltd., 2 Clementi Loop, #02-01, Singapore 129809.

An edited book

Dedousis, A. P., and T. Bartzanas, editors. 2010. Soil Engineering. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Momaya, K. S., and S. Chachondia. 2013. Technology Management to Accelerate Competitiveness Journey: Exploratory Case of a Renewable Energy Focal Firm from India. Pages 51–61 in C. Mukhopadhyay, K. B. Akhilesh, R. Srinivasan, A. Gurtoo, P. Ramachandran, P. P. Iyer, M. Mathirajan, and M. H. Bala Subrahmanya, editors. Driving the Economy through Innovation and Entrepreneurship: Emerging Agenda for Technology Management. Springer India, New Delhi.

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. 2017, March 6. NASA To Test Mars Radiation Shield On Its Mission Around the Moon. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/nasa-to-test-mars-radiation-shield-on-its-mission-around-the-moon/.

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. 1974. New Navajo Construction Activities on the Navajo and Hopi Joint-Use Area. U.S. Government Printing Office, B-114868, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Thompson, K. 2014. An Introduction to the Cox Proportional Hazards Model and Its Applications to Survival Analysis. 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

Kelly, S. 1999, May 16. Spring Children’s Books; Stuff and Nonsense. New York Times:723.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Turekian 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Jernvall and Fortelius 2002; Turekian 2003).

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

Two authors: (Jernvall and Fortelius 2002)
Three or more authors: (Schöck et al. 2000)

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