How to format your references using the Comprehensive Reviews in Food Science and Food Safety citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Comprehensive Reviews in Food Science and Food Safety. 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

Ruan, Y. (2011). Genome-sequencing anniversary. Presenting the human genome: now in 3D! Science (New York, N.Y.), 331(6020), 1025–1026.

A journal article with 2 authors

Adams, D. L., & Horton, J. C. (2002). Shadows cast by retinal blood vessels mapped in primary visual cortex. Science (New York, N.Y.), 298(5593), 572–576.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bertet, C., Sulak, L., & Lecuit, T. (2004). Myosin-dependent junction remodelling controls planar cell intercalation and axis elongation. Nature, 429(6992), 667–671.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Borodinsky, L. N., Root, C. M., Cronin, J. A., Sann, S. B., Gu, X., & Spitzer, N. C. (2004). Activity-dependent homeostatic specification of transmitter expression in embryonic neurons. Nature, 429(6991), 523–530.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Cooke, R. (2007). Classical Algebra: Its Nature, Origins, and Uses. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Pokorski, M. (Ed.). (2015). Pulmonary Infection (Vol. 857). Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Altenkirch, T., McBride, C., & Morris, P. (2007). Generic Programming with Dependent Types. In R. Backhouse, J. Gibbons, R. Hinze, & J. Jeuring (Eds.), Datatype-Generic Programming: International Spring School, SSDGP 2006, Nottingham, UK, April 24–27, 2006, Revised Lectures (pp. 209–257). 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 Comprehensive Reviews in Food Science and Food Safety.

Blog post

Luntz, S. (2015, May 7). Newly Released Photograph Shows Strange “Hole” In Space. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/come-see-darkness/

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. (1971). Use of ADP Equipment Operated by Three or Four Typical Government Contractors (B-115369). 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

Holland, J. H. (2010). Investigating the relationship between the policy implementation process and the utilization of information technology in a constitutional republic: The case of I-269 NEPA process [Doctoral dissertation]. Mississippi State 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

Dackman, L. (2006, June 4). When You Wish Upon a Saint, Watch What You Ask For. New York Times, ST9.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Ruan, 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Adams & Horton, 2002; Ruan, 2011).

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

Two authors: (Adams & Horton, 2002)
Three or more authors: (Borodinsky et al., 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	Comprehensive Reviews in Food Science and Food Safety
ISSN (print)	1541-4337
Scope