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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Christensen PR (2003) Formation of recent martian gullies through melting of extensive water-rich snow deposits. Nature 422:45–48
A journal article with 2 authors
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Pauluis O, Dias J (2012) Satellite estimates of precipitation-induced dissipation in the atmosphere. Science 335:953–956
A journal article with 3 authors
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Kieffer HH, Christensen PR, Titus TN (2006) CO2 jets formed by sublimation beneath translucent slab ice in Mars’ seasonal south polar ice cap. Nature 442:793–796
A journal article with 5 or more authors
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Laurance WF, Delamônica P, Laurance SG, et al (2000) Rainforest fragmentation kills big trees. Nature 404:836

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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Lyatkher VM, Proudovsky AM (2016) Hydraulic Modeling. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ
An edited book
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Clark SG, Hohl AM, Picard CH, Thomas E (2015) Large-Scale Conservation in the Common Interest. Springer International Publishing, Cham
A chapter in an edited book
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Molnár Z, López-Bendito G, Blakey D, et al (2006) The Earliest Thalamocortical Interactions. In: Erzurumlu R, Guido W, Molnár Z (eds) Development and Plasticity in Sensory Thalamus and Cortex. Springer US, Boston, MA, pp 54–78

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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Andrew E (2015) Scientists Accidentally Produce An Entirely New Type Of Glass. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/new-glass-surprised-scientists/. 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 (1977) Vulnerabilities of Telecommunications Systems to Unauthorized Use. 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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Honnold JL (2012) Toward a Working Theory of Neurorhetorics. Doctoral dissertation, University of South Florida

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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Kelly C (2017) What the Old House Hid. New York Times RE1

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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