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

Walker C (2014) The fun of science. Science 344:1314

A journal article with 2 authors

Tamura A, Yui N (2014) Lysosomal-specific cholesterol reduction by biocleavable polyrotaxanes for ameliorating Niemann-Pick type C disease. Sci Rep 4:4356

A journal article with 3 authors

Keimer B, Sackmann E, Withers PJ (2002) Neutron scattering. The case for neutron sources. Science 298:543

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Das S, Incarvito CD, Crabtree RH, Brudvig GW (2006) Molecular recognition in the selective oxygenation of saturated C-H bonds by a dimanganese catalyst. Science 312:1941–1943

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Papadimitriou GI, Tsimoulas PA, Obaidat MS, Pomportsis AS (2005) Multiwavelength Optical LANs. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Leon-Garcia A, Lenort R, Holman D, et al (eds) (2016) Smart City 360°: First EAI International Summit, Smart City 360°, Bratislava, Slovakia and Toronto, Canada, October 13-16, 2015. Revised Selected Papers. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Coronado JM, Hernández-Alonso MD (2013) The Keys of Success: TiO2 as a Benchmark Photocatalyst. In: Coronado JM, Fresno F, Hernández-Alonso MD, Portela R (eds) Design of Advanced Photocatalytic Materials for Energy and Environmental Applications. Springer, London, pp 85–101

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

Andrew D (2016) Do We Really Need To Do Five Times As Much Exercise As We’ve Been Told? 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 (1984) Costs of Government Funded Trips for Invitees To Attend Space Shuttle Launches at Kennedy Space Center, Florida. 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

Dillon KS (2009) Social support to families of children with special needs: A grant. 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

Branch J (2017) Kaepernick’s Conscience. New York Times SP1

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Walker 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Tamura and Yui 2014; Walker 2014).

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

Two authors: (Tamura and Yui 2014)
Three or more authors: (Das et al. 2006)

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