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

Speed T (2011) Mathematics. A correlation for the 21st century. Science 334:1502–1503

A journal article with 2 authors

Meguro A, Sato Y (2014) Salicylic acid antagonizes abscisic acid inhibition of shoot growth and cell cycle progression in rice. Sci Rep 4:4555

A journal article with 3 authors

Alarousu E, AlSaggaf A, Jabbour GE (2013) Online monitoring of printed electronics by Spectral-Domain Optical Coherence Tomography. Sci Rep 3:1562

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Reichart P, Datzmann G, Hauptner A, et al (2004) Three-dimensional hydrogen microscopy in diamond. Science 306:1537–1540

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ravindran K (2014) The Mathematics of Financial Models. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Cockell CS (2015) The Meaning of Liberty Beyond Earth. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Sugiyama Y, Fujita S (2011) The Demography and Reproductive Parameters of Bossou Chimpanzees. In: Matsuzawa T, Humle T, Sugiyama Y (eds) The Chimpanzees of Bossou and Nimba. Springer Japan, Tokyo, pp 23–34

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

Hamilton K (2016) Deadly Medical Errors Are Less Common Than Headlines Suggest. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/deadly-medical-errors-are-less-common-than-headlines-suggest/. 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 (1999) Commercial Maritime Industry: Supplemental Information on Federal Assessments. 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

Carey SA (2013) Assessing the presence of antibiotic-resistant Enterococcus in reclaimed water used for spray irrigation. Doctoral dissertation, University of Maryland, College Park

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

Shear MD, Cooper H, Schmitt E (2017) Trump Warns Assad After Reports of Possible Gas Preparations. New York Times A11

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