How to format your references using the Food Analytical Methods citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Food Analytical Methods. 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

Painter PR (2000) Rivers, blood and transportation networks. Nature 408:159; discussion 160

A journal article with 2 authors

Bunge HP, Grand SP (2000) Mesozoic plate-motion history below the northeast Pacific Ocean from seismic images of the subducted Farallon slab. Nature 405:337–340

A journal article with 3 authors

Lind PA, Berg OG, Andersson DI (2010) Mutational robustness of ribosomal protein genes. Science 330:825–827

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Zhao Y, Hu L, Liu H, et al (2014) Band gap tunable Zn2SnO4 nanocubes through thermal effect and their outstanding ultraviolet light photoresponse. Sci Rep 4:6847

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Anwar S, Carroll JJ (2016) Carbon Dioxide Thermodynamic Properties Handbook. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Sagonas K (ed) (2013) Practical Aspects of Declarative Languages: 15th International Symposium, PADL 2013, Rome, Italy, January 21-22, 2013. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Héritier M (2008) Cascade of FISDW Phases: Wave Vector Quantization and its Consequences. In: Lebed A (ed) The Physics of Organic Superconductors and Conductors. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 41–45

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 Food Analytical Methods.

Blog post

Davis J (2017) France To Ban Breeding Of Captive Orcas And Dolphins. In: IFLScience. 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) Department of Homeland Security: Continued Actions Needed to Strengthen Oversight and Coordination of Research and Development. 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

Masuyama G (2010) The Bird Is A Word. 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

Greenhouse L (2008) Conflicts for Justices Halt Appeal in Apartheid Case. New York Times A14

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Painter 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Bunge and Grand 2000; Painter 2000).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Bunge and Grand 2000)
Three or more authors: (Zhao et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Food Analytical Methods
Abbreviation	Food Anal. Methods
ISSN (print)	1936-9751
ISSN (online)	1936-976X
Scope	Food Science Analytical Chemistry Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology Safety Research