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

Bignami GF (2009) Astronomy. Two missions, one microquasar. Science 326:1490–1491

A journal article with 2 authors

Minton DA, Malhotra R (2009) A record of planet migration in the main asteroid belt. Nature 457:1109–1111

A journal article with 3 authors

Polley DB, Kvasnák E, Frostig RD (2004) Naturalistic experience transforms sensory maps in the adult cortex of caged animals. Nature 429:67–71

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Wang H, Zhu X, Li H, et al (2014) Induction of caspase-3-like activity in rice following release of cytochrome-f from the chloroplast and subsequent interaction with the ubiquitin-proteasome system. Sci Rep 4:5989

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kuo JB, Lin S-C (2002) Low-Voltage SOI CMOS VLSI Devices and Circuits. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York, USA

An edited book

Jonker W, Petković M (2014) Secure Data Management: 10th VLDB Workshop, SDM 2013, Trento, Italy, August 30, 2013, Proceedings. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Hirachi K (2008) Ambient Metric Construction of CR Invariant Differential Operators. In: Eastwood M, Miller W (eds) Symmetries and Overdetermined Systems of Partial Differential Equations. Springer, New York, NY, pp 61–75

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) GM Crops: An Uneasy Truce Hangs Over Europe. In: IFLScience. 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 (1992) Drug Education: Rural Programs Have Many Components and Most Rely Heavily on Federal Funds. 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

Weisblatt BH (2010) The numinous on Russian soil: A depth psychological interpretation of religious experience in “The Brothers Karamazov.” Doctoral dissertation, Pacifica Graduate Institute

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

Greenhouse L (2008) Court Looks at Legal Role for Mentally Ill. New York Times A21

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