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

Walton KS: Inorganic chemistry: Movies of a growth mechanism. Nature 2015, 523:535–536.

A journal article with 2 authors

Choi J-K, Bowles S: The coevolution of parochial altruism and war. Science 2007, 318:636–640.

A journal article with 3 authors

Nuth JA 3rd, Hill HG, Kletetschka G: Determining the ages of comets from the fraction of crystalline dust. Nature 2000, 406:275–276.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Thompson JR, Pacocha S, Pharino C, Klepac-Ceraj V, Hunt DE, Benoit J, Sarma-Rupavtarm R, Distel DL, Polz MF: Genotypic diversity within a natural coastal bacterioplankton population. Science 2005, 307:1311–1313.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Wegener E: Montagegerechte Anlagenplanung. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; 2003.

An edited book

Fraenkel AA: Recollections of a Jewish Mathematician in Germany. Springer International Publishing; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

Wiederhold BK, Bouchard S: Fear of Flying (Aviophobia): Efficacy and Methodological Lessons Learned from Outcome Trials. In Advances in Virtual Reality and Anxiety Disorders. Edited by Bouchard S. Springer US; 2014:65–89.

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

O`Callaghan J: NASA Prepares To Launch Groundbreaking Asteroid Sample Return Mission. IFLScience 2016,

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: Highway Trust Fund Obligations, Fiscal Years 2009 to 2011. U.S. Government Printing Office; 2013.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Vianna MH: An exploration of the factors that influence Brazilian students’ fluency of English: A case study. 2015,

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

Eligon J: A Black-and-White Issue. New York Times 2017,

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

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