How to format your references using the British Journal of Nutrition citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for British Journal of Nutrition (BJN). 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

Rawlins EL (2015) Stem cells: Emergency back-up for lung repair. Nature 517, 556–557.

A journal article with 2 authors

de Groot BL & Grubmüller H (2001) Water permeation across biological membranes: mechanism and dynamics of aquaporin-1 and GlpF. Science 294, 2353–2357.

A journal article with 3 authors

Villeneuve J, Chaussidon M, & Libourel G (2009) Homogeneous distribution of 26Al in the solar system from the Mg isotopic composition of chondrules. Science 325, 985–988.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Liang Y, Yang J, Yuan X, Qiu W, Zhong Z, Yang J et al. (2014) Polytypism in superhard transition-metal triborides. Sci Rep 4, 5063.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Stacey D (2008) Aeronautical Radio Communication Systems and Networks. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Camurri A & Costa C (editors) (2012) Intelligent Technologies for Interactive Entertainment: 4th International ICST Conference, INTETAIN 2011, Genova, Italy, May 25-27, 2011, Revised Selected Papers. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Ettl M, Sourirajan K, Huang P, Ervolina TR, & Lin GY (2011) Supply and Demand Synchronization in Assemble-to-Order Supply Chains. In Planning Production and Inventories in the Extended Enterprise: A State-of-the-Art Handbook, Volume 2, pp. 81–103 [Kempf KG, Keskinocak P, and Uzsoy R, editors]. New York, NY: 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 British Journal of Nutrition.

Blog post

Andrew E (2015) One Night Of Sleep Deprivation Can Affect The Genes That Control The Biological Clocks In Your Cells. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/one-night-sleep-deprivation-can-affect-genes-control-biological-clocks-your/ (accessed October 2018).

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 (2000) Federal Communications Commission: Extending Wireless Telecommunications Services to Tribal Lands. OGC-00-55.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Krishna V (2008) Exploring organizational commitment from an organizational perspective: Organizational learning as a determinant of affective commitment in Indian software firms. Doctoral dissertation, George Washington 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

McKINLEY J, Mueller B, & Rojas R (2015) Witness Says Clash Over Witchcraft Preceded a Teenager’s Fatal Beating. New York Times A17.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference ⁽¹⁾.
This sentence cites two references ^(1,2).
This sentence cites four references ^(1–4).

About the journal

Full journal title	British Journal of Nutrition
ISSN (print)	0007-1145
ISSN (online)	1475-2662
Scope