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

Sutherland WJ (2003) Parallel extinction risk and global distribution of languages and species. Nature 423:276–279

A journal article with 2 authors

McGuinness LP, Jelezko F (2015) Quantum mechanics. Look but don’t touch the metals. Science 347:1073–1074

A journal article with 3 authors

Yoo HI, Barsoum MW, El-Raghy T (2000) Ti3SiC2 has negligible thermopower. Nature 407:581–582

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Uchida M, Onose Y, Matsui Y, Tokura Y (2006) Real-space observation of helical spin order. Science 311:359–361

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Lutzke D (2012) Surfen in die digitale Zukunft. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany

An edited book

Zilberman D, Otte J, Roland-Holst D, Pfeiffer D (eds) (2012) Health and Animal Agriculture in Developing Countries, 1st edn. Springer, New York, NY

A chapter in an edited book

Jenkins TA, Mendelsohn FAO, Albiston AL, Chai SY (2007) Angiotensin IV Binding Site. In: Carey RM (ed) Hypertension and Hormone Mechanisms. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ, pp 61–74

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

Hale T (2017) Wild Orangutan Slaps Guy Trying To Take A Selfie With Him. 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 (1990) Competitiveness: The Challenge of the Deficit. 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

Jha JS (2013) [3+2] Cycloaddition Reaction of Gem-Dicyanoepoxide and Electrophilic Reaction of Ethyl Atropate. Doctoral dissertation, Southern Illinois University

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

Kishkovsky S (2003) Moscow Music Festival Marks Russian Easter. New York Times 53

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Sutherland 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Sutherland 2003; McGuinness and Jelezko 2015).

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

Two authors: (McGuinness and Jelezko 2015)
Three or more authors: (Uchida et al. 2006)

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