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 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. Berkley S. Share the risks of Ebola vaccine development. Nature. 2015;519:263.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Spilianakis CG, Flavell RA. Molecular biology. Managing associations between different chromosomes. Science. 2006;312:207–8.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Dillin A, Crawford DK, Kenyon C. Timing requirements for insulin/IGF-1 signaling in C. elegans. Science. 2002;298:830–4.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Tripathi S, Rana R, Kumar S, Pandey P, Singh RS, Rana DS. Ferromagnetic CaRuO3. Sci Rep. 2014;4:3877.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Equipment Testing Procedures Committee of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers. Trayed and Packed Columns. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2014.

An edited book

1. Singh C, editor. Public Debt Management: Separation of Debt from Monetary Management in India. New Delhi: Springer India; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Jansen C, Noll T. Generating Abstract Graph-Based Procedure Summaries for Pointer Programs. In: Giese H, König B, editors. Graph Transformation: 7th International Conference, ICGT 2014, Held as Part of STAF 2014, York, UK, July 22-24, 2014 Proceedings. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2014. p. 49–64.

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. Hale T. What’s With All The Red Spots On The Olympic Athletes? [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/whats-with-all-the-red-spots-on-the-olympic-athletes/

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. Research and Development Funding: Reported Gap Between Data From Federal Agencies and Their R&D Performers Results From Noncomparable Data. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2001 May. Report No.: GAO-01-512R.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Cline D. Criminal faces: Clinical experiences of forensic artists [Doctoral dissertation]. [Carpinteria, CA]: Pacifica Graduate Institute; 2012.

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. Dinardo K. Kevin Carr Will Stop Running When He Circles the World. New York Times. 2014 Aug 10;TR3.

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
Scope

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