How to format your references using the Clinical Nutrition Supplements citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Clinical Nutrition Supplements. 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

Kiefer T. Ocean science. When still waters ran deep. Science. 2010;329(5989):290-291.

A journal article with 2 authors

Tallis H, Lubchenco J. Working together: A call for inclusive conservation. Nature. 2014;515(7525):27-28.

A journal article with 3 authors

Huang S, Lee CTA, Yin QZ. Missing lead and high ³He/⁴He in ancient sulfides associated with continental crust formation. Sci Rep. 2014;4:5314.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Mancoff FB, Rizzo ND, Engel BN, Tehrani S. Phase-locking in double-point-contact spin-transfer devices. Nature. 2005;437(7057):393-395.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bottjer DJ. Paleoecology. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2016.

An edited book

Ziebertz HG, Črpić G, eds. Religion and Human Rights: An International Perspective. Springer International Publishing; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

Webb SD, Dunbar JS. Carbon Dates. In: Webb SD, ed. First Floridians and Last Mastodons: The Page-Ladson Site in the Aucilla River. Springer Netherlands; 2006:83-101.

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 Clinical Nutrition Supplements.

Blog post

Andrew E. Short, Sharp Shocks Let Slip The Stories Of Supernovae. IFLScience. May 22, 2015. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/space/short-sharp-shocks-let-slip-stories-supernovae/

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. Federal Research: Preliminary Information on the Small Business Technology Transfer Program. U.S. Government Printing Office; 1996.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Tornes IE. Topics in the Physics of Underdamped Josephson Systems. Doctoral dissertation. Ohio State University; 2006.

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 MW. A.I.G. Seeks Approval To File More Bank Suits. New York Times. January 16, 2013:B1.

In-text citations

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

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	Clinical Nutrition Supplements
ISSN (print)	1744-1161
Scope