How to format your references using the Fisheries citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for 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 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

Kiessling, W. 2006. Paleoecology. Life’s complexity cast in stone. Science (New York, N.Y.) 314(5803):1254–1255.

A journal article with 2 authors

Lin, J. Y., and D. E. Fisher. 2007. Melanocyte biology and skin pigmentation. Nature 445(7130):843–850.

A journal article with 3 authors

Coussens, L. M., L. Zitvogel, and A. K. Palucka. 2013. Neutralizing tumor-promoting chronic inflammation: a magic bullet? Science (New York, N.Y.) 339(6117):286–291.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Norris, D. R., P. P. Marra, R. Montgomerie, T. K. Kyser, and L. M. Ratcliffe. 2004. Reproductive effort, molting latitude, and feather color in a migratory songbird. Science (New York, N.Y.) 306(5705):2249–2250.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Münch, V. 2009. Patente, Marken, Design von A bis Z. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH, D-69451 Weinheim, Germany.

An edited book

Islam, M. D. N., editor. 2016. Public Health Challenges in Contemporary China: An Interdisciplinary Perspective1st ed. 2016. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Oshima, Y., T. Yoshida, T. Eri, K. Watanabe, M. Shibata, and T. Mishima. 2010. Freestanding GaN Wafers by Hydride Vapor Phase Epitaxy Using Void-Assisted Separation Technology. Pages 79–96 in D. Ehrentraut, E. Meissner, and M. Bockowski, editors. Technology of Gallium Nitride Crystal Growth. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

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 Fisheries.

Blog post

Hamilton, K. 2016, September 13. Why Are Vaccination Rates In England Falling? IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/why-are-vaccination-rates-in-england-falling/.

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. 1968. Research and Development--and the Congress. U.S. Government Printing Office, 091220, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Brister, M. H. 2008. Attitudes of agriscience teachers, counselors, administrators, and students toward selected agriscience programs in Mississippi. Doctoral dissertation, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS.

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

Billard, M. 2010, August 5. Scouting Report. New York Times:E6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Kiessling 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Kiessling 2006; Lin and Fisher 2007).

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

Two authors: (Lin and Fisher 2007)
Three or more authors: (Norris et al. 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	Fisheries
Abbreviation	Fisheries
ISSN (print)	0363-2415
ISSN (online)	1548-8446
Scope	Aquatic Science Nature and Landscape Conservation