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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Eisner, J.A. 2007. Water vapour and hydrogen in the terrestrial-planet-forming region of a protoplanetary disk. Nature 447(7144): 562–564.

A journal article with 2 authors

Patrinos, A., and D. Drell. 2002. The times they are a-changin’. Nature 417(6889): 589–590.

A journal article with 3 authors

Foukal, P., G. North, and T. Wigley. 2004. Climate. A stellar view on solar variations and climate. Science 306(5693): 68–69.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Park, H.B., C.H. Jung, Y.M. Lee, A.J. Hill, S.J. Pas, S.T. Mudie, E. Van Wagner, B.D. Freeman, and D.J. Cookson. 2007. Polymers with cavities tuned for fast selective transport of small molecules and ions. Science 318(5848): 254–258.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

The Chartered Institute of Building. 2008. Code of Practice for Project Management for Construction and Development. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishing.

An edited book

Backhouse, R., J. Gibbons, R. Hinze, and J. Jeuring (Eds). 2007. Datatype-Generic Programming: International Spring School, SSDGP 2006, Nottingham, UK, April 24–27, 2006, Revised Lectures. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 4719. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Xiao, S., J. Feng, J. Xing, H. Lai, S. Yan, and A. Kassim. 2016. Robust Facial Landmark Detection via Recurrent Attentive-Refinement Networks. In Computer Vision – ECCV 2016: 14th European Conference, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, October 11–14, 2016, Proceedings, Part I, eds. B. Leibe; J. Matas; N. Sebe and M. Welling, 57–72. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

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

Hale, T. 2015. Incredible Photos Show Sea Lions Attacking And Eating A Shark. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/incredible-photos-show-sea-lions-attacking-and-eating-shark/ (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. 2001. JFMIP: Acquisition/Financial Systems Interface Requirements (Exposure Draft). JFMIP-SR-01-03. 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

Pei, X. 2008. Acid modification of psyllium. Doctoral dissertation. University of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD.

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

Shear, M.D.; and Erlanger, S. 2017. Trump Condemns ‘Deeply Troubling’ Leaks on Attack After Complaints in Britain. New York Times. 25 May 2017.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Eisner 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Eisner 2007; Patrinos and Drell 2002).

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

Two authors: (Patrinos and Drell 2002)
Three or more authors: (Park et al. 2007)

About the journal

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