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

Bouwmeester D: Quantum mechanics. The quantum nondemolition derby. Science 2014, 344:1224–1226.

A journal article with 2 authors

Henderson IR, Jacobsen SE: Epigenetic inheritance in plants. Nature 2007, 447:418–424.

A journal article with 3 authors

Yuan F, Depew R, Soltis-Muth C: Ecosystem regime change inferred from the distribution of trace metals in Lake Erie sediments. Sci Rep 2014, 4:7265.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Di Paolo G, Moskowitz HS, Gipson K, Wenk MR, Voronov S, Obayashi M, Flavell R, Fitzsimonds RM, Ryan TA, De Camilli P: Impaired PtdIns(4,5)P2 synthesis in nerve terminals produces defects in synaptic vesicle trafficking. Nature 2004, 431:415–422.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Akers RM: Lactation and the Mammary Gland. Blackwell Publishing Company; 2016.

An edited book

Ismail-Zadeh A: Data-Driven Numerical Modelling in Geodynamics: Methods and Applications. Springer International Publishing; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

Thouti S, Sivani K, Kishan Rao K: Performance Index of the Outage Probability for Two-Relay Decode and Forward Cooperative Communications. In Emerging Research in Computing, Information, Communication and Applications: ERCICA 2015, Volume 3. Edited by Shetty NR, Prasad NH, Nalini N. Springer; 2016:35–54.

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

Andrew D: Why You Should Dispense With Antibacterial Soaps. 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: [Comments on GAO Legal Opinion on DOT Authority to Requisition Vessels of U.S. Citizens]. U.S. Government Printing Office; 1988.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Edwards K: Autism Spectrum Disorder and Social Narratives: Personalization of Delivery via Brief Experimental Analysis. 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

Hodgman J: Bonus Advice From Judge John Hodgman. 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