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

Kinlen L (2005) Obituary: Richard Doll (1912-2005). Nature 438:41

A journal article with 2 authors

Huber KE, Waldor MK (2002) Filamentous phage integration requires the host recombinases XerC and XerD. Nature 417:656–659

A journal article with 3 authors

Hung R-J, Pak CW, Terman JR (2011) Direct redox regulation of F-actin assembly and disassembly by Mical. Science 334:1710–1713

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Selbach M, Schwanhäusser B, Thierfelder N, et al (2008) Widespread changes in protein synthesis induced by microRNAs. Nature 455:58–63

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ramirez J (2011) Handbook of Corporate Equity Derivatives and Equity Capital Markets. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., Chichester, West Sussex, UK

An edited book

Costenoble SR (2016) Equivariant Ordinary Homology and Cohomology. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Bucsics A, Sauermann R, Nell-Duxneuner V (2016) Current Topics in Drug Reimbursement. In: Müller M (ed) Clinical Pharmacology: Current Topics and Case Studies. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 33–48

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

Andrew E (2015) MRI Could Help Improve Breast Cancer Risk Prediction. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/mri-could-help-improve-breast-cancer-risk-prediction/. 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 (2014) Space Acquisitions: DOD Needs More Guidance on Decisions to Store Satellites. 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

Lee M (2014) A graphic design curriculum development project. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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

Savodnik P (2012) ‘Their First Lenny Bruce Could Be Coming.’ New York Times MM34

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