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

Caplan, A. (2011). Genome-sequencing anniversary. What will drive genomics over the next 10 years? Science (New York, N.Y.), 331(6018), 691.

A journal article with 2 authors

Ahmed, S., & Hodgkin, J. (2000). MRT-2 checkpoint protein is required for germline immortality and telomere replication in C. elegans. Nature, 403(6766), 159–164.

A journal article with 3 authors

Randau, L., Schröder, I., & Söll, D. (2008). Life without RNase P. Nature, 453(7191), 120–123.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Clack, J. A., Ahlberg, P. E., Finney, S. M., Dominguez Alonso, P., Robinson, J., & Ketcham, R. A. (2003). A uniquely specialized ear in a very early tetrapod. Nature, 425(6953), 65–69.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Monks, R. A. G., Reed Lajoux, A., & LeBaron, D. (2010). Corporate Valuation for Portfolio Investment. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Lee, M., Hirose, A., Hou, Z.-G., & Kil, R. M. (Eds.). (2013). Neural Information Processing: 20th International Conference, ICONIP 2013, Daegu, Korea, November 3-7, 2013. Proceedings, Part III (Vol. 8228). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Schienke, E. W. (2012). “Ecocity China”: An Ethos Under Development. In S. H. Christensen, C. Mitcham, B. Li, & Y. An (Eds.), Engineering, Development and Philosophy: American, Chinese and European Perspectives (pp. 69–85). Springer Netherlands.

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

Luntz, S. (2016, August 4). North American Population Boom Preceded Agriculture. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/north-american-population-boom-preceded-agriculture/

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. (1974). CH-53E Helicopter (093062). 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

Soto, M. (2009). Barriers among Hispanic adults on dialysis that affect medication compliance [Doctoral dissertation]. 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

Walsh, M. W. (2014, November 22). Judge Rejects Overhaul of Illinois’s Beleaguered State Pension System. New York Times, A10.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Caplan, 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Ahmed & Hodgkin, 2000; Caplan, 2011).

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

Two authors: (Ahmed & Hodgkin, 2000)
Three authors: (Randau et al., 2008)
6 or more authors: (Clack et al., 2003)

About the journal

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