How to format your references using the Advances in Nutrition citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Advances in Nutrition. 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 references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles 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

Collins D. Misadventures in the Burgess Shale. Nature 2009;460:952–3.

A journal article with 2 authors

Sebolt-Leopold JS, English JM. Mechanisms of drug inhibition of signalling molecules. Nature 2006;441:457–62.

A journal article with 3 authors

Staver AC, Archibald S, Levin SA. The global extent and determinants of savanna and forest as alternative biome states. Science 2011;334:230–2.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Hirota T, Lipp JJ, Toh B-H, Peters J-M. Histone H3 serine 10 phosphorylation by Aurora B causes HP1 dissociation from heterochromatin. Nature 2005;438:1176–80.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Center for Chemical Process Safety. Guidelines for Investigating Chemical Process Incidents. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2003.

An edited book

McGeer R, Berman M, Elliott C, Ricci R, editors. The GENI Book. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016. XXX, 651 p. 255 illus., 225 illus. in color p.

A chapter in an edited book

Karasulu B, Korukoglu S. A Case Study: People Detection and Tracking in Videos. In: Korukoglu S, editor. Performance Evaluation Software: Moving Object Detection and Tracking in Videos. New York, NY: Springer; 2013. p. 51–63.

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 Advances in Nutrition.

Blog post

Andrew E. Watch SpaceX’s Falcon 9 Rocket Launch LIVE [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2014 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/live-webcast-spacex-crs-4-launch/

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. Impact of Funding on Materials R&D Programs in the Departments of Energy and Commerce, and NASA Since FY 1980. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1982 Apr. Report No.: EMD-82-73.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Gary M. Home Range and Habitat Use of Juvenile Green Turtles in a Shallow Tidal Environment [Doctoral dissertation]. [Boca Raton, FL]: Florida Atlantic University; 2017.

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

Kelly D. Deconstruct This! New York Times. 2002;78.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (1).
This sentence cites two references (1,2).
This sentence cites four references (1–4).

About the journal

Full journal title	Advances in Nutrition
Abbreviation	Adv. Nutr.
ISSN (print)	2161-8313
ISSN (online)	2156-5376
Scope	Food Science Medicine (miscellaneous) Nutrition and Dietetics