How to format your references using the Bioactive Carbohydrates and Dietary Fibre citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Bioactive Carbohydrates and Dietary Fibre. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Tyree, M. T. (2003). Plant hydraulics: the ascent of water. Nature, 423(6943), 923.

A journal article with 2 authors

Gao, Y. Q., & Marcus, R. A. (2001). Strange and unconventional isotope effects in ozone formation. Science (New York, N.Y.), 293(5528), 259–263.

A journal article with 3 authors

Lee, C.-Y., Robinson, K. J., & Doe, C. Q. (2006). Lgl, Pins and aPKC regulate neuroblast self-renewal versus differentiation. Nature, 439(7076), 594–598.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Nahlen, B. L., Korenromp, E. L., Miller, J. M., & Shibuya, K. (2005). Malaria risk: estimating clinical episodes of malaria. Nature, 437(7056), E3; discussion E4-5.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bar-Eli, M., Plessner, H., & Raab, M. (2011). Judgement, Decision Making and Success in Sport. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Gomes, L. T. (2015). Fuzzy Differential Equations in Various Approaches (L. C. de Barros & B. Bede, Eds.; 1st ed. 2015). Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Huang, S., & Liu, J. (2005). Direct Growth of Single Walled Carbon Nanotubes on Flat Substrates for Nanoscale Electronic Applications. In S. V. Rotkin & S. Subramoney (Eds.), Applied Physics of Carbon Nanotubes: Fundamentals of Theory, Optics and Transport Devices (pp. 113–132). 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 Bioactive Carbohydrates and Dietary Fibre.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2014, June 19). Ancestors Of Humans And Chimps May Have Begun Diverging 13 Million Years Ago. IFLScience; IFLScience.

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. (1993). Drug Education: Limited Progress in Program Evaluation (T-PEMD-93-2). 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

Etchberger, J. F. (2008). The cis-regulatory logic of gustatory neuron development in Caenorhabditis elegans [Doctoral dissertation]. Columbia 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

Yablonsky, L. (2010, January 31). A Cut Above. New York Times, ST3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Tyree, 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Gao & Marcus, 2001; Tyree, 2003).

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

Two authors: (Gao & Marcus, 2001)
Three authors: (Lee et al., 2006)
6 or more authors: (Nahlen et al., 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	Bioactive Carbohydrates and Dietary Fibre
ISSN (print)	2212-6198
Scope	Food Science Biochemistry Organic Chemistry