How to format your references using the Fisheries Research citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Fisheries Research. 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	Download the output style file
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

Gershon, D., 2002. Toxicogenomics gains impetus. Nature 415, 4–5.

A journal article with 2 authors

Morris, R.G., Barthelemy, M., 2013. Interdependent networks: the fragility of control. Sci. Rep. 3, 2764.

A journal article with 3 authors

Yonezawa, H., Aoki, T., Furusawa, A., 2004. Demonstration of a quantum teleportation network for continuous variables. Nature 431, 430–433.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Sockolosky, J.T., Trotta, E., Parisi, G., Picton, L., Su, L.L., Le, A.C., Chhabra, A., Silveria, S.L., George, B.M., King, I.C., Tiffany, M.R., Jude, K., Sibener, L.V., Baker, D., Shizuru, J.A., Ribas, A., Bluestone, J.A., Garcia, K.C., 2018. Selective targeting of engineered T cells using orthogonal IL-2 cytokine-receptor complexes. Science 359, 1037–1042.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Lindahl, D., 2007. Emerging Real Estate Markets. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Reed, M.W., Audisio, R.A. (Eds.), 2010. Management of Breast Cancer in Older Women. Springer, London.

A chapter in an edited book

Reid, J.K., Cockcroft, D.W., Davis, B.E., 2009. Nasal and Bronchial Nonallergic Provocation Tests, in: Pawankar, R., Holgate, S.T., Rosenwasser, L.J. (Eds.), Allergy Frontiers: Diagnosis and Health Economics. Springer Japan, Tokyo, pp. 63–79.

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 Research.

Blog post

Evans, K., 2016. This Interactive Map Shows Where People With HIV Live In The US — And It Points To Some Distressing Trends [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/this-interactive-map-shows-where-people-with-hiv-live-in-the-us-and-it-points-to-some-distressing-rends/ (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 1999. Transportation Infrastructure: FHWA Should Assess and Compare the Benefits of Projects When Awarding Discretionary Grants (No. RCED-99-263). 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

Fernandes, J.M., 2017. Physical and chemical properties of Jupiter’s north and south polar vortex revealed through mid-infrared imaging (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Wilson, M., 2017. In Chelsea Bombing Trial, a Lesson on How a Cellphone Becomes a Trigger. New York Times A20.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Gershon, 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Gershon, 2002; Morris and Barthelemy, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Morris and Barthelemy, 2013)
Three or more authors: (Sockolosky et al., 2018)

About the journal

Full journal title	Fisheries Research
Abbreviation	Fish. Res.
ISSN (print)	0165-7836
Scope	Aquatic Science