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

Holman CM: Genetics. Trends in human gene patent litigation. Science 2008, 322:198–199.

A journal article with 2 authors

Estrada E, Vargas-Estrada E: How peer pressure shapes consensus, leadership, and innovations in social groups. Sci Rep 2013, 3:2905.

A journal article with 3 authors

Jaramillo C, Rueda MJ, Mora G: Cenozoic plant diversity in the neotropics. Science 2006, 311:1893–1896.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Olguin G, Yacou C, Smart S, da Costa JCD: Tailoring the oxidation state of cobalt through halide functionality in sol-gel silica. Sci Rep 2013, 3:2449.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Rigo M: Formal Languages, Automata and Numeration Systems 2. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2014.

An edited book

Cheung SKS, Fong J, Kwok L-F, Li K, Kwan R (Eds): Hybrid Learning: 5th International Conference, ICHL 2012, Guangzhou, China, August 13-15, 2012. Proceedings. Springer; 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

Tønnessen M: Umwelt and Language. In Biosemiotic Perspectives on Language and Linguistics. Edited by Velmezova E, Kull K, Cowley SJ. Springer International Publishing; 2015:77–96.

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

Davis J: Self-Driving Car Travels 3,400 Miles Across America. IFLScience 2015,

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: Policies Guiding the Dissemination of Scientific Research from Selected Agencies Should Be Clarified and Better Communicated. U.S. Government Printing Office; 2007.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Grizzel RE: Three choral works by Dr. James Mobberley—the analysis rehearsal, and performance of “Poem to Ease Birth”, “Lullaby”, and “Spring: O Sparrow.” 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

Billard M: A Brooklyn Life On the Big Screen. New York Times 2013,

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