How to format your references using the Current Opinion in Food Science citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Current Opinion in Food Science. 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

Long JCS: Piecemeal cuts won’t add up to radical reductions. Nature 2011, 478:429.

A journal article with 2 authors

Karklin Y, Lewicki MS: Emergence of complex cell properties by learning to generalize in natural scenes. Nature 2009, 457:83–86.

A journal article with 3 authors

Barbot S, Lapusta N, Avouac J-P: Under the hood of the earthquake machine: toward predictive modeling of the seismic cycle. Science 2012, 336:707–710.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Paul K, Erhardt M, Hirano T, Blair DF, Hughes KT: Energy source of flagellar type III secretion. Nature 2008, 451:489–492.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Fränzle S, Markert B, Wünschmann S: Introduction to Environmental Engineering. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; 2012.

An edited book

Wu G, Coupé P, Zhan Y, Munsell BC, Rueckert D (Eds): Patch-Based Techniques in Medical Imaging: Second International Workshop, Patch-MI 2016, Held in Conjunction with MICCAI 2016, Athens, Greece, October 17, 2016, Proceedings. Springer International Publishing; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

Fisch MJ: Fatigue. In Supportive Care in Cancer Therapy. Edited by Ettinger DS. Humana Press; 2009:87–107.

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 Opinion in Food Science.

Blog post

Hale T: Some Old (And Very Important) Mold Just Sold For $14,617. IFLScience 2017,

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: Public Transit: Federal and Transit Agencies Taking Steps to Build Transit Systems’ Resilience but Face Challenges. U.S. Government Printing Office; 2014.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Qin R: Mid -ocean ridge morphology and tectonics: Insights from numerical modeling of faults and dikes. 2008,

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

Burton S: How to Talk to Strangers. New York Times 2015,

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 Opinion in Food Science
Abbreviation	Curr. Opin. Food Sci.
ISSN (print)	2214-7993
Scope	Food Science Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology