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

Lessler, J. 2014. Immunology. Charting the life-course epidemiology of influenza. Science (New York, N.Y.) 346(6212):919–920.

A journal article with 2 authors

Manne, A. S., and R. G. Richels. 2001. An alternative approach to establishing trade-offs among greenhouse gases. Nature 410(6829):675–677.

A journal article with 3 authors

Aboelella, N. W., A. M. Reynolds, and W. B. Tolman. 2004. Biophysics. Catching copper in the act. Science (New York, N.Y.) 304(5672):836–837.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Blum, J. D., A. Klaue, C. A. Nezat, C. T. Driscoll, C. E. Johnson, T. G. Siccama, C. Eagar, T. J. Fahey, and G. E. Likens. 2002. Mycorrhizal weathering of apatite as an important calcium source in base-poor forest ecosystems. Nature 417(6890):729–731.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Richards, T. 2014. Investing Psychology. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Joost, H.-G., editor. 2012. Appetite Control. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Gharibreza, M., and M. A. Ashraf. 2014. Soil Erosion Rate and Nutrient Loss at the Bera Lake Catchment. Pages 107–134 in M. A. Ashraf, editor. Applied Limnology: Comprehensive View from Watershed to Lake. Springer Japan, Tokyo.

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

Davis, J. 2015, September 26. First Self-Injectable Contraceptive Now Available In The U.K. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/first-self-injectable-contraceptive-now-available-uk/.

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. 1978. Changes Needed in the Tax Laws Governing the Exclusion for Scholarships and Fellowships and the Deduction of Job-Related Educational Expenses. U.S. Government Printing Office, GGD-78-72, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Wadhwa, P. H. 2015. Secure building automation system using Tesla protocol. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Southall, A., and J. C. McKINLEY Jr. 2016, September 30. Caregiver Who Abused 4-Year-Old Boy Faces 22-Year Sentence for Murder. New York Times:A22.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Lessler 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Manne and Richels 2001; Lessler 2014).

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

Two authors: (Manne and Richels 2001)
Three or more authors: (Blum et al. 2002)

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

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