How to format your references using the Fishery Bulletin citation style

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

Jimenez-Sanchez, G.

2003. Developing a platform for genomic medicine in Mexico. Science 300:295–296

A journal article with 2 authors

Deeks, S.G., and Barré-Sinoussi, F.

2012. Public health: Towards a cure for HIV. Nature 487:293–294

A journal article with 3 authors

Acuña, J.L., López-Urrutia, Á., and Colin, S.

2011. Faking giants: the evolution of high prey clearance rates in jellyfishes. Science 333:1627–1629

A journal article with 4 or more authors

McGuire, A.L., Cho, M.K., McGuire, S.E., and Caulfield, T.

2007. Medicine. The future of personal genomics. Science 317:1687

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Boulanger, J.-L.

2013. Safety Management for Software-based Equipment. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ USA.

An edited book

Perotto, S., and Baluška, F., eds

2012. Signaling and Communication in Plant Symbiosis. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg., Vol. 11

A chapter in an edited book

Burnell, P.

2011. Is the international environment becoming less benign for democratisation? In Regression of Democracy?: Zeitschrift für Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft Comparative Governance and Politics (Erdmann, G., and M. Kneuer, eds). p. 81–101. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden.

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 Fishery Bulletin.

Blog post

Andrew, E.

2013, October 23. Machinery In Nature. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/machinery-nature/

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

1992. Federal Research: Small Business Innovation Research Shows Success but Can Be Strengthened (No. RCED-92-37). Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Gaudet, C.J.

2013. A General Approach to the Direct Detection of Dark Matter (Doctoral dissertation). University of Louisiana, Lafayette, LA.

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

Gordon, M.

2016, May 16. A Boy’s Fate. New York Times. p. BR1., p. BR1

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Jimenez-Sanchez, 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Jimenez-Sanchez, 2003; Deeks and Barré-Sinoussi, 2012).

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

Two authors: (Deeks and Barré-Sinoussi, 2012)
Three authors: (Acuña, López-Urrutia, and Colin, 2011)
4 or more authors: (McGuire et al., 2007)

About the journal

Full journal title	Fishery Bulletin
Abbreviation	Fish. Bull. (Wash. D.C.)
ISSN (print)	0090-0656
Scope	Aquatic Science