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

Kreiter A (2014) Science at the sharp end of oppressive politics. Nature 506:133

A journal article with 2 authors

Berry RM, Armitage JP (2008) Microbiology. How bacteria change gear. Science 320:1599–1600

A journal article with 3 authors

Khila A, Abouheif E, Rowe L (2012) Function, developmental genetics, and fitness consequences of a sexually antagonistic trait. Science 336:585–589

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Chao H-T, Chen H, Samaco RC, et al (2010) Dysfunction in GABA signalling mediates autism-like stereotypies and Rett syndrome phenotypes. Nature 468:263–269

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Corley RHV, Tinker PB (2015) The Oil Palm. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Meersman R, Tari Z, Herrero P (eds) (2005) On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems 2005: OTM 2005 Workshops: OTM Confederated Internationl Workshops and Posters, AWeSOMe, CAMS, GADA, MIOS+INTEROP, ORM, PhDS, SeBGIS, SWWS, and WOSE 2005, Agia Napa, Cyprus, October 31 - November 4, 2005. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Purkayastha BB, Sarma KK (2015) Basic Considerations of PLL and Its Types. In: Sarma KK (ed) A Digital Phase Locked Loop based Signal and Symbol Recovery System for Wireless Channel. Springer India, New Delhi, pp 89–101

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

Andrew E (2014) Regenerative Medicine Has Huge Potential But It Does Not Come Cheap. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/regenerative-medicine-has-huge-potential-it-does-not-come-cheap/. 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 (1992) Attack Warning: Status of the Survivable Communications Integration 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

Lewis DS (2010) Global Educational Ecosystem: Case study of a partnership with K–12 schools, community organizations, and business. Doctoral dissertation, Pepperdine 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

Shpigel B, Schonbrun Z (2017) A Comeback and a Controversial Call Provide Some Crackle on Day 2. New York Times D3

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Kreiter 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Berry and Armitage 2008; Kreiter 2014).

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

Two authors: (Berry and Armitage 2008)
Three or more authors: (Chao et al. 2010)

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