How to format your references using the Appetite citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Appetite. 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

Butterfield, N. J. (2011). Paleontology. Terminal developments in Ediacaran embryology. Science (New York, N.Y.), 334(6063), 1655–1656.

A journal article with 2 authors

Delbarco-Trillo, J., & Ferkin, M. H. (2004). Male mammals respond to a risk of sperm competition conveyed by odours of conspecific males. Nature, 431(7007), 446–449.

A journal article with 3 authors

Qin, Z., Pugno, N. M., & Buehler, M. J. (2014). Mechanics of fragmentation of crocodile skin and other thin films. Scientific Reports, 4, 4966.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Leonardi, I., Li, X., Semon, A., Li, D., Doron, I., Putzel, G., Bar, A., Prieto, D., Rescigno, M., McGovern, D. P. B., Pla, J., & Iliev, I. D. (2018). CX3CR1+ mononuclear phagocytes control immunity to intestinal fungi. Science (New York, N.Y.), 359(6372), 232–236.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Waye, J. D., Aisenberg, J., & Rubin, P. H. (2013). Practical Colonoscopy. Blackwell Publishing Ltd.

An edited book

Goldreich, O., Rosenberg, A. L., & Selman, A. L. (Eds.). (2006). Theoretical Computer Science: Essays in Memory of Shimon Even (Vol. 3895). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Lonquety, M., Lacroix, Z., & Chomilier, J. (2008). Evaluation of the Stability of Folding Nucleus upon Mutation. In M. Chetty, A. Ngom, & S. Ahmad (Eds.), Pattern Recognition in Bioinformatics: Third IAPR International Conference, PRIB 2008, Melbourne, Australia, October 15-17, 2008. Proceedings (pp. 54–65). 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 Appetite.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2016, May 29). Why Alcohol Makes You Feel Warm – And Other Strange Effects It Has On The Brain. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/brain/why-alcohol-makes-you-feel-warm-and-other-strange-effects-it-has-brain/

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. (1973). Review of Claims Settlement (B-179146). U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Tucker, M. T. (2009). Structure-property stress state dependent relationships under varying strain rates [Doctoral dissertation]. Mississippi State 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

Leland, J. (2016, October 14). Loft Life: Music, Stretching and Leftovers. New York Times, MB2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Butterfield, 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Butterfield, 2011; Delbarco-Trillo & Ferkin, 2004).

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

Two authors: (Delbarco-Trillo & Ferkin, 2004)
Three authors: (Qin et al., 2014)
6 or more authors: (Leonardi et al., 2018)

About the journal

Full journal title	Appetite
Abbreviation	Appetite
ISSN (print)	0195-6663
Scope	Nutrition and Dietetics General Psychology