How to format your references using the Eating and Weight Disorders - Studies on Anorexia, Bulimia and Obesity citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Eating and Weight Disorders - Studies on Anorexia, Bulimia and Obesity. 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:

PaperpileThe citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNoteFind the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and othersThe style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeXBibTeX 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
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McCusker JK (2001) Photocatalysis. Fuel from photons. Science 293:1599–1601
A journal article with 2 authors
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Yeston J, Coontz R (2009) Industrial chemistry. Chemistry writ large. Introduction. Science 325:691
A journal article with 3 authors
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Taylor AH, Allen JI, Clark PA (2002) Extraction of a weak climatic signal by an ecosystem. Nature 416:629–632
A journal article with 5 or more authors
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Burlaga LF, Ness NF, Acuña MH, et al (2005) Crossing the termination shock into the heliosheath: magnetic fields. Science 309:2027–2029

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
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Pouly M, Kohlas J (2011) Generic Inference. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ
An edited book
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Devillers J (2009) Ecotoxicology Modeling. Springer US, Boston, MA
A chapter in an edited book
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Beauquier J, Blanchard P, Burman J (2013) Self-stabilizing Leader Election in Population Protocols over Arbitrary Communication Graphs. In: Baldoni R, Nisse N, Steen M van (eds) Principles of Distributed Systems: 17th International Conference, OPODIS 2013, Nice, France, December 16-18, 2013. Proceedings. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 38–52

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 Eating and Weight Disorders - Studies on Anorexia, Bulimia and Obesity.

Blog post
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Davis J (2017) Researchers Create Artificial Mouse “Embryo” From Stem Cells. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/researchers-create-artificial-mouse-embryo-from-stem-cells/. Accessed 30 Oct 2018

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
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Government Accountability Office (2010) Space Acquisitions: Challenges in Commercializing Technologies Developed under the Small Business Innovation Research Program. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation
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Dougherty MH (2009) Identification of needs reported by grandparents of grandchildren, from birth to twenty-one years, with disabilities in the commonwealth of Kentucky. Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University

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
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Lehman S (2016) The Big Try-On. New York Times F4

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 titleEating and Weight Disorders - Studies on Anorexia, Bulimia and Obesity
AbbreviationEat. Weight Disord.
ISSN (print)1124-4909
ISSN (online)1590-1262
ScopePsychiatry and Mental health
Clinical Psychology

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