How to format your references using the Flavour citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Flavour. 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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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. Sutcliffe JS. Genetics. Insights into the pathogenesis of autism. Science. 2008;321:208–9.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Theise ND, Wilmut I. Cell plasticity: flexible arrangement. Nature. 2003;425:21.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Saika-Voivod I, Poole PH, Sciortino F. Fragile-to-strong transition and polyamorphism in the energy landscape of liquid silica. Nature. 2001;412:514–7.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Ritchie KB, Nagelkerken I, James S, Smith GW. A tetrodotoxin-producing marine pathogen. Nature. 2000;404:354.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Brown T, Andrews GJ, Cummins S, Greenhough B, Lewis D, Power A. Health Geographies. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2017.

An edited book

1. Nickerson CA, Schurr MJ, editors. Molecular Paradigms of Infectious Disease: A Bacterial Perspective. Boston, MA: Springer US; 2006.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Mechler AI. Characterization and Analysis of Biomimetic Membranes. In: Martin DK, editor. Nanobiotechnology of Biomimetic Membranes. Boston, MA: Springer US; 2007. p. 89–126.

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.

Blog post

1. Andrew E. Plants Can Actually Take Care Of Their Offspring – Here’s How. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2014.

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. Increasing Costs, Competition May Hinder U.S. Position of Leadership in High Energy Physics. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1980 Sep. Report No.: EMD-80-58.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Tarar WA. A New Finite Element Procedure for Fatigue Life Predictionand High Strain Rate Assessment of Cold Worked Advanced High Strength Steel [Doctoral dissertation]. [Columbus, OH]: Ohio State University; 2008.

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. Kelly C. Film Delves Into Lives of Strippers in Dallas. New York Times. 2014 Jun 22;A27B.

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	Flavour
Abbreviation	Flavour
ISSN (online)	2044-7248
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