How to format your references using the Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries. 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

Salzberg S (2008) The contents of the syringe. Nature 454:160–161

A journal article with 2 authors

Cosson S, Lutolf MP (2014) Hydrogel microfluidics for the patterning of pluripotent stem cells. Sci Rep 4:4462

A journal article with 3 authors

Kumarevel T, Mizuno H, Kumar PKR (2005) Structural basis of HutP-mediated anti-termination and roles of the Mg2+ ion and L-histidine ligand. Nature 434:183–191

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Ota A, Mase J, Howteerakul N, et al (2014) The effort-reward imbalance work-stress model and daytime salivary cortisol and dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA) among Japanese women. Sci Rep 4:6402

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Huang F, Klette R, Scheibe K (2008) Panoramic Imaging. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Barak M, Hacker M (eds) (2011) Fostering Human Development Through Engineering and Technology Education. SensePublishers, Rotterdam

A chapter in an edited book

Stangenberg F, Breitenbücher R, Bruhns OT, et al (2009) Methodological Implementation. In: Breitenbücher R, Bruhns OT, Hartmann D, et al. (eds) Lifetime-Oriented Structural Design Concepts. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 365–652

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 Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries.

Blog post

O`Callaghan J (2017) Watch Water Droplets Explode As They Freeze From The Outside In. In: IFLScience. Accessed 30 Oct 2018

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 (1986) ADP Systems: Concerns About the Acquisition Plan for DOD’s Composite Health Care System. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Madapatha SA (2015) Energy efficient hierarchical wireless routing protocol (EEHW routing protocol). Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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

Murphy MJO (2015) Weekend Entertainments From the Archives of The New York Times. New York Times C21

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Salzberg 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Salzberg 2008; Cosson and Lutolf 2014).

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

Two authors: (Cosson and Lutolf 2014)
Three or more authors: (Ota et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries
Abbreviation	Rev. Fish Biol. Fish.
ISSN (print)	0960-3166
ISSN (online)	1573-5184
Scope	Aquatic Science