How to format your references using the European Journal of Nutrition citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for European Journal of Nutrition. 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	Download the output style file
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

Barinaga M (2000) SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY: Geology Couple Plots a Path to Success. Science 289:2027

A journal article with 2 authors

Zhu F, Zhang X (2013) The Wnt signaling pathway is involved in the regulation of phagocytosis of virus in Drosophila. Sci Rep 3:2069

A journal article with 3 authors

Homer H, Gui L, Carroll J (2009) A spindle assembly checkpoint protein functions in prophase I arrest and prometaphase progression. Science 326:991–994

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Ferguson NM, Ghani AC, Donnelly CA, et al (2002) Estimating the human health risk from possible BSE infection of the British sheep flock. Nature 415:420–424

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Fan J (2010) Multiscale Analysis of Deformation and Failure of Materials. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Seto ML (2013) Marine Robot Autonomy. Springer, New York, NY

A chapter in an edited book

Kemp GP, Willson CS, Rogers JD, et al (2014) Adapting to Change in the Lowermost Mississippi River: Implications for Navigation, Flood Control and Restoration of the Delta Ecosystem. In: Day JW, Kemp GP, Freeman AM, Muth DP (eds) Perspectives on the Restoration of the Mississippi Delta: The Once and Future Delta. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp 51–84

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 Journal of Nutrition.

Blog post

Hale T (2016) How To Check If You’ve Been Hacked Within Seconds. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/how-check-if-youve-been-hacked-within-seconds/. 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 (1976) Career Education: Status and Needed Improvements. 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

McLean MR (2010) Analyzing the relationship of geographic mobility and institutional prestige to career advancement of women in academic medicine pursuing midcareer-, senior-, or executive-level administrative positions: Implications for career advancement strategies. Doctoral dissertation, George Washington 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

Hollander S (2001) Is the Field Getting Too Crowded? New York Times 14NJ7

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 Journal of Nutrition
Abbreviation	Eur. J. Nutr.
ISSN (print)	1436-6207
ISSN (online)	1436-6215
Scope	Medicine (miscellaneous) Nutrition and Dietetics