How to format your references using the Current Nutrition Reports citation style

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

1. Melosh HJ. Asteroids. Traces of an unusual impact. Science. 2002;296:1037–8.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Kovach JD, Lamb RS. Evolution. There can be only one. Science. 2014;343:623–4.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Levayer R, Hauert B, Moreno E. Cell mixing induced by myc is required for competitive tissue invasion and destruction. Nature. 2015;524:476–80.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Tritsch NX, Yi E, Gale JE, Glowatzki E, Bergles DE. The origin of spontaneous activity in the developing auditory system. Nature. 2007;450:50–5.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Rowe WB. Modern Grinding Techniques. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2010.

An edited book

1. Semenov O. ESD Protection Device and Circuit Design for Advanced CMOS Technologies. Sarbishaei H, Sachdev M, editors. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2008.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Klous S, Wielaard N. Hitting the Bullseye First Time Around. In: Wielaard N, editor. We are Big Data: The Future of the Information Society. Paris: Atlantis Press; 2016. p. 53–75.

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 Current Nutrition Reports.

Blog post

1. Hale T. A Step By Step Guide On How To Remove Your Online Presence [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/technology/a-step-by-step-guide-on-how-to-remove-your-online-presence/

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

1. Government Accountability Office. Educational Achievement Standards: NAGB’s Approach Yields Misleading Interpretations. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1993 Jun. Report No.: PEMD-93-12.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Ramirez C. A Policy Analysis: Assembly Bill 1421 or Laura’s Law [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2017.

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

1. Greenhouse L. Justices Bar Death Penalty For the Rape of a Child. New York Times. 2008 Jun 26;A1.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

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	Current Nutrition Reports
Abbreviation	Curr. Nutr. Rep.
ISSN (online)	2161-3311
Scope

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