How to format your references using the Fish Physiology and Biochemistry citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Fish Physiology and Biochemistry. 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

Kentsis A (2006) Correspondence patterns: mechanisms and models of human dynamics. Nature 441:E5; discussion E5-6

A journal article with 2 authors

Bergink S, Jentsch S (2009) Principles of ubiquitin and SUMO modifications in DNA repair. Nature 458:461–467

A journal article with 3 authors

Lyons JR, Lewis RS, Clayton RN (2009) Comment on “Experimental test of self-shielding in vacuum ultraviolet photodissociation of CO.” Science 324:1516;author reply 1516

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Rouzi AA, Almansouri N, Sahly N, et al (2014) Efficacy of intra-cervical misoprostol in the management of early pregnancy failure. Sci Rep 4:7182

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

McKean J (2014) Customer’s New Voice. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Chen Q, Hameurlain A, Toumani F, et al (eds) (2015) Database and Expert Systems Applications: 26th International Conference, DEXA 2015, Valencia, Spain, September 1-4, 2015, Proceedings, Part I, 1st ed. 2015. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

MacGregor RW (2009) Personalities Make the Difference. In: Straus J (ed) The Role of Law and Ethics in the Globalized Economy. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 1–7

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 Fish Physiology and Biochemistry.

Blog post

Davis J (2016) North American Tribes Temporarily Halt Construction Of Pipeline In North Dakota. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/north-american-tribes-temporarily-halt-construction-of-pipeline-in-north-dakota/. 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 (1989) Department of Education: Management of the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services. 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

Hammarsten C (2015) Decorated Heegaard Diagrams and Combinatorial Heegaard Floer Homology. Doctoral dissertation, George Washington 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

Tavernise S, Kovaleski SF, Turkewitz J (2017) ‘I Wish I Could Tell You He Was a Miserable Bastard.’ New York Times A1

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Kentsis 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Kentsis 2006; Bergink and Jentsch 2009).

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

Two authors: (Bergink and Jentsch 2009)
Three or more authors: (Rouzi et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Fish Physiology and Biochemistry
Abbreviation	Fish Physiol. Biochem.
ISSN (print)	0920-1742
ISSN (online)	1573-5168
Scope	Aquatic Science Biochemistry Physiology General Medicine