How to format your references using the North American Journal of Fisheries Management citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for North American Journal of Fisheries Management. 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

Nicolelis, M. A. 2001. Actions from thoughts. Nature 409(6818):403–407.

A journal article with 2 authors

Ferdinand, N. K., and B. Opitz. 2014. Different aspects of performance feedback engage different brain areas: disentangling valence and expectancy in feedback processing. Scientific reports 4:5986.

A journal article with 3 authors

Dominguez, P., A. G. Jacobson, and R. P. S. Jefferies. 2002. Paired gill slits in a fossil with a calcite skeleton. Nature 417(6891):841–844.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Plank, M., G. Hu, A. S. Silva, S. H. Wood, E. E. Hesketh, G. Janssens, A. Macedo, J. P. de Magalhães, and G. M. Church. 2013. An analysis and validation pipeline for large-scale RNAi-based screens. Scientific reports 3:1076.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Fitschen, K. 2013. Building Reliable Trading Systems. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Sipes, J. L. 2013. Creating Green Roadways: Integrating Cultural, Natural, and Visual Resources into Transportation. Page M. L. Sipes, editor. Island Press/Center for Resource Economics, Washington, DC.

A chapter in an edited book

Tytler, R., P. Hubber, and V. Prain. 2013. Structuring Learning Sequences. Pages 51–65 in R. Tytler, V. Prain, P. Hubber, and B. Waldrip, editors. Constructing Representations to Learn in Science. SensePublishers, Rotterdam.

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 North American Journal of Fisheries Management.

Blog post

Luntz, S. 2015, February 10. Travel Through The Solar System At The Speed Of Light. 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. 1984. Better Management Controls and ADP Requirements Analysis Can Help NASA Lewis Research Center. U.S. Government Printing Office, IMTEC-84-25, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Kamis, R. P. 2013. The Relationship between Expanded Concepts of Self and Well-Being. Doctoral dissertation, Northcentral University, Scottsdale, AZ.

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

Kishkovsky, S. 2000, August 31. Restructuring At the Bolshoi Costs Director His Position. New York Times:E1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Nicolelis 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Nicolelis 2001; Ferdinand and Opitz 2014).

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

Two authors: (Ferdinand and Opitz 2014)
Three or more authors: (Plank et al. 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	North American Journal of Fisheries Management
Abbreviation	N. Am. J. Fish. Manag.
ISSN (print)	0275-5947
ISSN (online)	1548-8675
Scope	Aquatic Science Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics Ecology Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law