How to format your references using the Flavour and Fragrance Journal citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Flavour and Fragrance Journal. 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

[1]

R. Kessler, Nature 2014, 509, S62-3.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

N. Watanabe, T. J. Mitchison, Science 2002, 295, 1083–1086.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

R. Brookmeyer, E. Johnson, R. Bollinger, Nature 2004, 432, 901–904.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

D. Li, F.-F. Bi, N.-N. Chen, J.-M. Cao, W.-P. Sun, Y.-M. Zhou, C.-Y. Li, Q. Yang, Sci. Rep. 2014, 4, 6666.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

P. Saint-Dizier, Musical Rhetoric, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2014.

An edited book

[1]

C. Stephanidis, Ed. , HCI International 2013 - Posters’ Extended Abstracts: International Conference, HCI International 2013, Las Vegas, NV, USA, July 21-26, 2013, Proceedings, Part II, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

J. Gabarro, A. García, M. Serna, in Computing and Combinatorics: 14th Annual International Conference, COCOON 2008 Dalian, China, June 27-29, 2008 Proceedings (Eds.: X. Hu, J. Wang), Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2008, pp. 31–40.

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 Flavour and Fragrance Journal.

Blog post

[1]

J. Davis, Researchers Eavesdrop On Arctic Whales To Learn Their Movements. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/researchers-eavesdrop-arctic-whales-learn-their-movements/ [30 October 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

[1]

Government Accountability Office, Management Agenda for the Presidential and Congressional Transition: Strengthen Cybersecurity Over Sensitive Data and Protect Critical Infrastructure, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2016.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

C. J. Alimo, From Dialogue to Action: The Development of White Racial Allies, Doctoral dissertation, University of Maryland, College Park, 2010.

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

[1]

M. Kolomatsky, New York Times 2017, RE2.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

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	Flavour and Fragrance Journal
Abbreviation	Flavour Fragr. J.
ISSN (print)	0882-5734
ISSN (online)	1099-1026
Scope	Food Science General Chemistry