How to format your references using the Canadian Journal of Dietetic Practice and Research citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Canadian Journal of Dietetic Practice and Research. 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

Distel JR. Obituary: Raymond Davis Jr (1914-2006). Nature. 2006 Jul 13;442(7099):150.

A journal article with 2 authors

Wolchok JD, Chan TA. Cancer: Antitumour immunity gets a boost. Nature. 2014 Nov 27;515(7528):496–8.

A journal article with 3 authors

He Y, Michaels SD, Amasino RM. Regulation of flowering time by histone acetylation in Arabidopsis. Science. 2003 Dec 5;302(5651):1751–4.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Liu PL-F, Lynett P, Fernando H, Jaffe BE, Fritz H, Higman B, et al. Observations by the international tsunami survey team in Sri Lanka. Science. 2005 Jun 10;308(5728):1595.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Paul S. Digital Video Distribution in Broadband, Television, Mobile and Converged Networks. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2010.

An edited book

Katsikis PD, Schoenberger SP, Pulendran B, eds. Crossroads Between Innate and Adaptive Immunity IV. New York, NY: Springer; 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

Neese F. Spin-Hamiltonian Parameters from First Principle Calculations: Theory and Application. In: Berliner L, Hanson G, eds. High Resolution EPR: Applications to Metalloenzymes and Metals in Medicine. New York, NY: Springer; 2009. p. 175–229.

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 Canadian Journal of Dietetic Practice and Research.

Blog post

Andrew E. Supernova Core Imaged For the First Time. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2014 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/supernova-core-imaged-first-time/

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. Educating Deaf Students at Federally Assisted Postsecondary Schools. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1986 Feb. Report No.: 129130.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Coleman MJ. Surface accuracy analysis and mathematical modeling of deployable large aperture elastic antenna reflectors [Doctoral dissertation]. [Washington, DC]: George Washington University; 2010.

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

Kelly C. Shore Enclave Feels The Breezes of Change. New York Times. 2006 Aug 18;F6.

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	Canadian Journal of Dietetic Practice and Research
Abbreviation	Can. J. Diet. Pract. Res.
ISSN (print)	1486-3847
Scope	General Medicine Medicine (miscellaneous) Nutrition and Dietetics