How to format your references using the Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries. 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

Hochstrasser M (2009) Origin and function of ubiquitin-like proteins. Nature 458:422–429

A journal article with 2 authors

Mittal S, Hafezi M (2015) Materials science: Round the bend with microwaves. Nature 522:292–293

A journal article with 3 authors

Domnisoru C, Kinkhabwala AA, Tank DW (2013) Membrane potential dynamics of grid cells. Nature 495:199–204

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Dumont S, Cheng W, Serebrov V, et al (2006) RNA translocation and unwinding mechanism of HCV NS3 helicase and its coordination by ATP. Nature 439:105–108

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Lam J (2014) Enterprise Risk Management. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Ebi KL, Burton I, McGregor GR (eds) (2009) Biometeorology for Adaptation to Climate Variability and Change. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht

A chapter in an edited book

Karatzas KD, Papadourakis G, Kyriakidis I (2009) Understanding and Forecasting Air Pollution with the Aid of Artificial Intelligence Methods in Athens, Greece. In: Koutsojannis C, Sirmakessis S (eds) Tools and Applications with Artificial Intelligence. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 37–50

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 Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries.

Blog post

Andrew D (2016) Gut Instinct: How The Way You’re Born And Fed Affect Your Immune System. In: IFLScience. Accessed 30 Oct 2018

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 (2005) 21st Century Challenges: Reexamining the Base of the Federal Government. 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

Harris SK (2017) Dissecting the Disappearing Act: Discussing the Dissipation of Black Male Role Models in Black Communities. Doctoral dissertation, Southern Illinois 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

Saslow L (2006) Jets Overhead, Noise Complaints Below. New York Times 14LI2

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Hochstrasser 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Hochstrasser 2009; Mittal and Hafezi 2015).

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

Two authors: (Mittal and Hafezi 2015)
Three or more authors: (Dumont et al. 2006)

About the journal

Full journal title	Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries
Abbreviation	Rev. Fish Biol. Fish.
ISSN (print)	0960-3166
ISSN (online)	1573-5184
Scope	Aquatic Science