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

Konner, M. (2002). Weaving life’s pattern. Nature, 418(6895), 279.

A journal article with 2 authors

Bloch, J. I., & Boyer, D. M. (2002). Grasping primate origins. Science (New York, N.Y.), 298(5598), 1606–1610.

A journal article with 3 authors

Debruyne, R., Schwarz, C., & Poinar, H. (2008). Comment on “Whole-genome shotgun sequencing of mitochondria from ancient hair shafts.” Science (New York, N.Y.), 322(5903), 857; author reply 857.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Mattapallil, J. J., Douek, D. C., Hill, B., Nishimura, Y., Martin, M., & Roederer, M. (2005). Massive infection and loss of memory CD4+ T cells in multiple tissues during acute SIV infection. Nature, 434(7037), 1093–1097.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

De Larminat, P. (2014). Climate Change. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Cebeci, T. (2005). Analysis of Low-Speed Unsteady Airfoil Flows (M. Platzer, H. Chen, K.-C. Chang, & J. P. Shao, Eds.). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Bauby, P. (2014). Water Globalization: The Strategies of the Two French “Majors.” In G. Schneier-Madanes (Ed.), Globalized Water: A Question of Governance (pp. 45–61). 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 Bioactive Carbohydrates and Dietary Fibre.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015, July 21). Elon Musk Announces Why SpaceX Rocket Exploded Earlier This Year. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/spacex-rocket-exploded-due-faulty-strut/

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. (2004). Telecommunications: GSA Faces Challenges in Planning for New Governmentwide Program (GAO-04-486T). 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

Torres, N. (2012). Do family nurse practitioner students understand the physiological changes associated with andropause in men over forty? [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

Rothenberg, B. (2017, January 11). Looking to Tune In to Catch Women’s Tennis? For Now, Better Get Creative. New York Times, B11.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Konner, 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Bloch & Boyer, 2002; Konner, 2002).

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

Two authors: (Bloch & Boyer, 2002)
Three or more authors: (Mattapallil et al., 2005)

About the journal

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