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

Knight J (2001) Celera and Motorola brought in to aid hunt for disease genes. Nature 413:9

A journal article with 2 authors

Bouhifd MA, Jephcoat AP (2006) Aluminium control of argon solubility in silicate melts under pressure. Nature 439:961–964

A journal article with 3 authors

Yuasa S, Nagahama T, Suzuki Y (2002) Spin-polarized resonant tunneling in magnetic tunnel junctions. Science 297:234–237

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Jin C, Kim J, Utama MIB, et al (2018) Imaging of pure spin-valley diffusion current in WS2-WSe2 heterostructures. Science 360:893–896

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hens H (2012) Building Physics: Heat, Air and Moisture. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany

An edited book

Cuellar J (2013) Smart Grid Security: First International Workshop, SmartGridSec 2012, Berlin, Germany, December 3, 2012, Revised Selected Papers. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Debenest P, Guarnieri M, Takita K, et al (2010) Expliner – Toward a Practical Robot for Inspection of High-Voltage Lines. In: Howard A, Iagnemma K, Kelly A (eds) Field and Service Robotics: Results of the 7th International Conference. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 45–55

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

Taub B (2017) Women May Find Cocaine More Addictive When Their Estrogen Levels Are High. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/brain/women-may-find-cocaine-more-addictive-when-estrogen-levels-high/. 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 (2005) Financial Audit: The Federal Communications Commission’s Fiscal Year 2004 Management Representation Letter on Its Financial Statements. 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

Heredia R (2017) Leadership Development in a Multigenerational Workplace: An Exploratory Study. Doctoral dissertation, Pepperdine 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

Crow K (2002) “Something To Hang Onto”: A New Calling Making Flags. New York Times 147

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