How to format your references using the Marine and Freshwater Behaviour and Physiology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Marine and Freshwater Behaviour and Physiology. 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

Folbre N. 2008. Economics. When a commodity is not exactly a commodity. Science. 319(5871):1769–1770.

A journal article with 2 authors

Zimbelman JR, Scheidt SP. 2012. Hesperian age for western Medusae Fossae Formation, Mars. Science. 336(6089):1683.

A journal article with 3 authors

Verhulst EC, Beukeboom LW, van de Zande L. 2010. Maternal control of haplodiploid sex determination in the wasp Nasonia. Science. 328(5978):620–623.

A journal article with 12 or more authors

Pichevin LE, Reynolds BC, Ganeshram RS, Cacho I, Pena L, Keefe K, Ellam RM. 2009. Enhanced carbon pump inferred from relaxation of nutrient limitation in the glacial ocean. Nature. 459(7250):1114–1117.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hahn GJ, Doganaksoy N. 2011. A Career in Statistics. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Mebazaa A, Gheorghiade M, Zannad FM, Parrillo JE, editors. 2008. Acute Heart Failure. London: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Craven R, Toni F, Williams M. 2014. Graph-Based Dispute Derivations in Assumption-Based Argumentation. In: Black E, Modgil S, Oren N, editors. Theory and Applications of Formal Argumentation: Second International Workshop, TAFA 2013, Beijing, China, August 3-5, 2013, Revised Selected papers. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; p. 46–62.

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 Marine and Freshwater Behaviour and Physiology.

Blog post

Hale T. 2016. This Optical Illusion Of A Brick Wall Is Really Driving The Internet Nuts. IFLScience [Internet]. [accessed 2018 Oct 30]. https://www.iflscience.com/brain/optical-illusion-brick-wall-really-annoying-people/

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. Mass Transit Grants: Risk of Misspent and Ineffectively Used Funds in FTA’s Chicago Region. 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

Jordan AD. 2008. Measuring the efficacy of a Ninth Grade Academy on students with disabilities [Doctoral dissertation]. Minneapolis, MN: Capella 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

Barry E, Kramer AE. 2012. In Biting Cold, Protesters Pack the Center of Moscow to Rally Against Putin. New York Times.:A8.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Folbre 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Folbre 2008; Zimbelman and Scheidt 2012).

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

Two authors: (Zimbelman and Scheidt 2012)
Three or more authors: (Pichevin et al. 2009)

About the journal

Full journal title	Marine and Freshwater Behaviour and Physiology
Abbreviation	Mar. Freshw. Behav. Physiol.
ISSN (print)	1023-6244
ISSN (online)	1029-0362
Scope	Aquatic Science Physiology Oceanography