How to format your references using the Annual Review of Nutrition citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Annual Review of 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

Briggs DEG. 2010. Obituary: Harry Whittington (1916-2010). Nature. 466(7307):706

A journal article with 2 authors

Starace DM, Bezanilla F. 2004. A proton pore in a potassium channel voltage sensor reveals a focused electric field. Nature. 427(6974):548–53

A journal article with 3 authors

Blackburn EH, Epel ES, Lin J. 2015. Human telomere biology: A contributory and interactive factor in aging, disease risks, and protection. Science. 350(6265):1193–98

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Konstantatos G, Howard I, Fischer A, Hoogland S, Clifford J, et al. 2006. Ultrasensitive solution-cast quantum dot photodetectors. Nature. 442(7099):180–83

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Omura G, Benton BC. 2017. Mastering AutoCAD and AutoCAD LT. Indianapolis, Indiana: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Di Nardo A. 2013. Water Supply Network District Metering: Theory and Case Study. Vienna: Springer. X, 94 p p.

A chapter in an edited book

Libkin L. 2007. Embedded Finite Models and Constraint Databases. In Finite Model Theory and Its Applications, ed PG Kolaitis, L Libkin, M Marx, J Spencer, MY Vardi, et al., pp. 257–337. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer

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 Annual Review of Nutrition.

Blog post

Luntz S. 2016. The Americas Joined Together Three Million Years Ago. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/the-americas-joined-together-three-million-years-ago/

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. 1998. Aviation Security: FAA’s Deployments of Equipment to Detect Traces of Explosives. RCED-99-32R, 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

Chhun S. 2010. Assessing the role of vacuolar trafficking in fifteen candidate env genes at the late endosome to vacuole interface in S. cerevisiae. Doctoral dissertation thesis. California State University, Long Beach

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

Koblin J, Maheshwari S. 2017. CBS Woos Sponsors With Energetic Pitch By a Surging Colbert. New York Times, May 18, p. B6

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (2).
This sentence cites two references (2, 4).
This sentence cites four references (4, 5, 7, 8).

About the journal

Full journal title	Annual Review of Nutrition
Abbreviation	Annu. Rev. Nutr.
ISSN (print)	0199-9885
ISSN (online)	1545-4312
Scope	Medicine (miscellaneous) Nutrition and Dietetics