How to format your references using the Acta Ichthyologica et Piscatoria citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Acta Ichthyologica et Piscatoria. 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

Altman M.S. 2010. Chemistry. CO prefers the aisle seat. Science (New York, N.Y.) 327 (5967): 789–790.

A journal article with 2 authors

Mitchell-Olds T., Knight C.A. 2002. Evolution. Chaperones as buffering agents? Science (New York, N.Y.) 296 (5577): 2348–2349.

A journal article with 3 authors

Smith M.H., Ploegh H.L., Weissman J.S. 2011. Road to ruin: targeting proteins for degradation in the endoplasmic reticulum. Science (New York, N.Y.) 334 (6059): 1086–1090.

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Poizot P., Laruelle S., Grugeon S., et al. 2000. Nano-sized transition-metal oxides as negative-electrode materials for lithium-ion batteries. Nature 407 (6803): 496–499.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Iyengar S.S., Parameshwaran N., Phoha V.V., et al. 2010. Fundamentals of Sensor Network Programming. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Kalia V.C. (ed). 2015. Microbial Factories: Biofuels, Waste treatment: Volume 1, 1st ed. 2015. Springer India, New Delhi.

A chapter in an edited book

Silvestry F.E. 2013. Echocardiographic Evaluation of Patients Before and After MitraClip Mitral Valve Repair. Pp. 63–93. In: Feldman T., Franzen O., Low R., et al. (eds). Atlas of Percutaneous Edge-to-Edge Mitral Valve Repair. Springer, London.

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 Acta Ichthyologica et Piscatoria.

Blog post

O`Callaghan J. 2017. SpaceX Plans To Send Two People On A Mission To The Moon In 2018. In: IFLScience. . https://www.iflscience.com/space/spacex-plans-to-send-two-people-on-a-mission-to-the-moon-in-2018/. 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. 2003. DOD Business Systems Modernization: Important Progress Made to Develop Business Enterprise Architecture, but Much Work Remains. 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

Beck E.S. 2008. Waging war with words: Idealized gender and Iberian chivalry. Doctoral dissertation, Columbia 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

Ortved J. 2017. Browsing for Denim. Or a Toothbrush. 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 (Altman 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Mitchell-Olds and Knight 2002; Altman 2010).

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

Two authors: (Mitchell-Olds and Knight 2002)
Three or more authors: (Poizot et al. 2000)

About the journal

Full journal title	Acta Ichthyologica et Piscatoria
ISSN (print)	0137-1592
ISSN (online)	1734-1515
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