How to format your references using the Journal of Fish Diseases citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Fish Diseases. 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

Kealey, T. (2000). More is less. Economists and governments lag decades behind Derek Price’s thinking. Nature, 405(6784), 279.

A journal article with 2 authors

Boughn, S., & Crittenden, R. (2004). A correlation between the cosmic microwave background and large-scale structure in the Universe. Nature, 427(6969), 45–47.

A journal article with 3 authors

Duarte, C. M., Marbá, N., & Holmer, M. (2007). Ecology. Rapid domestication of marine species. Science (New York, N.Y.), 316(5823), 382–383.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Wang, Z., Carter, J. A., Lagutchev, A., Koh, Y. K., Seong, N.-H., Cahill, D. G., & Dlott, D. D. (2007). Ultrafast flash thermal conductance of molecular chains. Science (New York, N.Y.), 317(5839), 787–790.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Minoli, D. (2004). A Networking Approach to Grid Computing. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Krische, M. J. (Ed.). (2007). Metal Catalyzed Reductive C–C Bond Formation: A Departure from Preformed Organometallic Reagents (Vol. 279). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Kehl, S. (2014). Morphology, Anatomy, and Physiological Aspects of Dytiscids. In D. A. Yee (Ed.), Ecology, Systematics, and the Natural History of Predaceous Diving Beetles (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae) (pp. 173–198). Springer Netherlands.

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 Journal of Fish Diseases.

Blog post

Fang, J. (2015, January 16). See-Through Shrimp-Like Creature Has a Dozen Retinas in Each Eye. IFLScience. IFLScience.

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. (2007). Federal Disability Assistance: Stronger Federal Oversight Could Help Assure Multiple Programs’ Accountability (GAO-07-236). 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

Layer, B. D. (2012). Structured plasma waveguides and deep EUV generation enabled by intense laser-cluster interactions [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Maryland, College Park.

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

Walsh, M. W. (2012, December 22). Debt Ceiling Rises Again As Threat For the U.S. New York Times, B1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Kealey, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Boughn & Crittenden, 2004; Kealey, 2000).

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

Two authors: (Boughn & Crittenden, 2004)
Three or more authors: (Wang et al., 2007)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Fish Diseases
Abbreviation	J. Fish Dis.
ISSN (print)	0140-7775
ISSN (online)	1365-2761
Scope	Aquatic Science Veterinary (miscalleneous)