What does a Fisheries reference list entry look like?

A journal article formatted in Fisheries looks like this: Rivera, M., and D. Chen. 2021. The mapping of meaning: A study of citation practice. Journal of Scholarly Communication 12(3):145–162.

How can I generate a Fisheries citation?

Use the free generator on this page: paste a DOI, URL (e.g. a news article), or BibTeX, or search for a book by title or author. Select Fisheries as the citation style and click Generate to get a formatted reference you can copy into your paper or bibliography.

Fisheries Citation Generator

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Fisheries citation examples

The same three sources formatted in Fisheries — an author–date style: in-text citations name the author and year, and the reference list is alphabetized by author:

Journal article: Rivera, M., and D. Chen. 2021. The mapping of meaning: A study of citation practice. Journal of Scholarly Communication 12(3):145–162.
Book: Okafor, A. 2019. The craft of research writing, 2nd edition. University Press, Cambridge.
Website: Larsen, S. 2023, May 14. How peer review works. https://www.example.org/peer-review.
In-text citation (for the journal article): (Rivera and Chen 2021)

About Fisheries

Citation style for Fisheries. From the Citation Style Language repository.

When to use Fisheries: When submitting to or citing in publications that use the Fisheries style. Common in: International.

Subject areas: biology.

Formatting rules: Fisheries follows the formatting of AFS, the parent style it is based on.

How to use this Fisheries generator

Paste a DOI, a URL to a news article or webpage, or raw BibTeX into the box above. You can also search for a book by title or author and cite it by ISBN. Choose "Fisheries" in the style dropdown (it's pre-selected on this page), then click "Generate citation." Copy the result into your reference list or bibliography. You can edit the generated entry (e.g. fix a title or add a date) before copying.

Frequently asked questions about Fisheries

What is Fisheries?: Citation style for Fisheries. From the Citation Style Language repository.
When should I use Fisheries?: When submitting to or citing in publications that use the Fisheries style.
What does an in-text citation look like in Fisheries?: Fisheries is an author–date style: in-text citations name the author and year, and the reference list is alphabetized by author. Citing our sample journal article in the text looks like: (Rivera and Chen 2021)
What does a Fisheries reference list entry look like?: A journal article formatted in Fisheries looks like this: Rivera, M., and D. Chen. 2021. The mapping of meaning: A study of citation practice. Journal of Scholarly Communication 12(3):145–162.
How can I generate a Fisheries citation?: Use the free generator on this page: paste a DOI, URL (e.g. a news article), or BibTeX, or search for a book by title or author. Select Fisheries as the citation style and click Generate to get a formatted reference you can copy into your paper or bibliography.

CitationEasy supports many citation styles from around the world. Our generator uses Citation Style Language (CSL) styles from the official CSL repository.