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

Witmer LM (2001) Nostril position in dinosaurs and other vertebrates and its significance for nasal function. Science 293:850–853

A journal article with 2 authors

Nussenzveig P, Barata JCA (2010) Physics. A drop of quantum matter. Science 328:1491–1492

A journal article with 3 authors

Li YC, Cheng TH, Gartenberg MR (2001) Establishment of transcriptional silencing in the absence of DNA replication. Science 291:650–653

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Kim BG, Kim H-J, Back S, et al (2014) Improved reversibility in lithium-oxygen battery: understanding elementary reactions and surface charge engineering of metal alloy catalyst. Sci Rep 4:4225

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Wood J, Brown W, Howe H (2013) IT Auditing and Application Controls for Small and Mid-Sized Enterprises. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Bobenko AI (ed) (2016) Advances in Discrete Differential Geometry. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Wichmann T, DeLong MR (2006) Basal ganglia discharge abnormalities in Parkinson’s disease. In: Riederer P, Reichmann H, Youdim MBH, Gerlach M (eds) Parkinson’s Disease and Related Disorders. Springer, Vienna, pp 21–25

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) Cassini Just Snapped Some Amazing New Images Of Saturn’s Rings. 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 (2007) Freight Railroads: Updated Information on Rates and Competition Issues. 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

De Felice D (2013) A Phenomenological Study of Teaching Endangered Languages Online: Perspectives from Nahua and Mayan Educators. Doctoral dissertation, University of South Florida

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

Cowen T (2016) A Slowdown That Silicon Valley Doesn’t Believe. New York Times BU6

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Witmer 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Witmer 2001; Nussenzveig and Barata 2010).

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

Two authors: (Nussenzveig and Barata 2010)
Three or more authors: (Kim 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