How to format your references using the North Pacific Anadromous Fish Commission Bulletin citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for North Pacific Anadromous Fish Commission Bulletin. 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

Cyranoski, D. 2002. Fresh horizons South Korea. Nature 420(6916): 4–5.

A journal article with 2 authors

Haigo, S.L., and D. Bilder. 2011. Global tissue revolutions in a morphogenetic movement controlling elongation. Science 331(6020): 1071–1074.

A journal article with 3 authors

Golding, N.L., N.P. Staff, and N. Spruston. 2002. Dendritic spikes as a mechanism for cooperative long-term potentiation. Nature 418(6895): 326–331.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Müller, C.M., B. Pejcic, L. Esteban, C. Delle Piane, M. Raven, and B. Mizaikoff. 2014. Infrared attenuated total reflectance spectroscopy: an innovative strategy for analyzing mineral components in energy relevant systems. Sci. Rep. 4: 6764.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Gadd, K. 2016. TRIZ für Ingenieure. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

van den Berg, K.J., A. Burnstock, M. de Keijzer, J. Krueger, T. Learner, T.D. Alberto, and G. Heydenreich (Eds). 2014. Issues in Contemporary Oil Paint. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Termini, S., and M.E. Tabacchi. 2013. Specificities and Vagaries of Medicine from the Viewpoint of Hard Sciences. In Fuzziness and Medicine: Philosophical Reflections and Application Systems in Health Care: A Companion Volume to Sadegh-Zadeh’s Handbook of Analytical Philosophy of Medicine, eds. R. Seising and M.E. Tabacchi, 77–81. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

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 Pacific Anadromous Fish Commission Bulletin.

Blog post

Andrew, E. 2015. Earthquakes, Superstorms…And Other Little-Known Perils Of Climate Change. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/earthquakes-superstorms-and-other-little-known-perils-climate-change-0/ (2018/10/30)

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. 2009. High Speed Passenger Rail: Future Development Will Depend on Addressing Financial and Other Challenges and Establishing a Clear Federal Role. GAO-09-317. Washington, DC: 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

Moro, J.M. 2017. School Improvement Grants at Work: A Study of Urban, Public New England Schools. Doctoral dissertation. Pepperdine University, Malibu, 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

Walsh, M.W. 2012. Debt Ceiling Rises Again As Threat For the U.S. New York Times. 22 December 2012.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Cyranoski 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Cyranoski 2002; Haigo and Bilder 2011).

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

Two authors: (Haigo and Bilder 2011)
Three or more authors: (Müller et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	North Pacific Anadromous Fish Commission Bulletin
ISSN (print)	1028-9127
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