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

Egues JC (2005) Physics. Fingerprinting spin qubits. Science 309:565–567

A journal article with 2 authors

Roediger HL 3rd, McDermott KB (2011) Neuroscience. Remember when? Science 333:47–48

A journal article with 3 authors

Denommee KC, Bentley SJ, Droxler AW (2014) Climatic controls on hurricane patterns: a 1200-y near-annual record from Lighthouse Reef, Belize. Sci Rep 4:3876

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Phizicky E, Bastiaens PIH, Zhu H, et al (2003) Protein analysis on a proteomic scale. Nature 422:208–215

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Machin D, Campbell MJ (2005) Design of Studies for Medical Research. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Xu KS, Reitter D, Lee D, Osgood N (2016) Social, Cultural, and Behavioral Modeling: 9th International Conference, SBP-BRiMS 2016, Washington, DC, USA, June 28 - July 1, 2016, Proceedings. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Kopczak LR, Matthews G (2016) Measuring Markets That Supply Cash-Based Humanitarian Interventions. In: Zobel CW, Altay N, Haselkorn MP (eds) Advances in Managing Humanitarian Operations. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 79–109

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

Davis J (2015) Schizophrenia Linked To Smoking. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/brain/why-are-schizophrenia-and-smoking-linked/. 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 (1984) National Public Radio. 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

Warren SM (2015) The leadership process: An analysis of follower influence on leader behavior in hospital organizations. 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

Greenhouse L (2006) Justices Weigh In on Use Of Tapes and Transcripts. New York Times A15

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