How to format your references using the European Food Research and Technology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for European Food Research and Technology. 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

Danzon PM (2007) At what price? Nature 449:176–179

A journal article with 2 authors

Woodroffe R, Redpath SM (2015) CONSERVATION. When the hunter becomes the hunted. Science 348:1312–1314

A journal article with 3 authors

Gormley WT Jr, Phillips D, Gayer T (2008) The early years. Preschool programs can boost school readiness. Science 320:1723–1724

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Liu Z, Feldman LC, Tolk NH, et al (2006) Desorption of H from Si(111) by resonant excitation of the Si-H vibrational stretch mode. Science 312:1024–1026

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Voldman SH (2014) ESD. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, United Kingdom

An edited book

Garcia-Alfaro J, Lioudakis G, Cuppens-Boulahia N, et al (2014) Data Privacy Management and Autonomous Spontaneous Security: 8th International Workshop, DPM 2013, and 6th International Workshop, SETOP 2013, Egham, UK, September 12-13, 2013, Revised Selected Papers. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Wright S, Bakmand-Mikalski D, Rais RB, et al (2011) Practical Document Management with SharePoint 2010. In: Bakmand-Mikalski D, Rais RB, Bishop D, et al (eds) Expert SharePoint 2010 Practices. Apress, Berkeley, CA, pp 111–160

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 European Food Research and Technology.

Blog post

Andrew E (2015) Asthmatic Sea Otter Learns To Use An Inhaler. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/asthmatic-sea-otter-learns-use-inhaler/. 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

Government Accountability Office (2000) Commercial Motor Vehicles: Significant Actions Remain to Improve Truck Safety. 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

Naik M (2017) Automating the process of antibiotic susceptibility testing. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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

Kenigsberg B (2017) Film Series. New York Times C20

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	European Food Research and Technology
Abbreviation	Eur. Food Res. Technol.
ISSN (print)	1438-2377
ISSN (online)	1438-2385
Scope	Food Science Biochemistry Biotechnology General Chemistry Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering