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

Lengauer C (2003) Cancer. An unstable liaison. Science 300:442–443

A journal article with 2 authors

Kliebenstein DJ, Rowe HC (2009) Plant science. Anti-rust antitrust. Science 323:1301–1302

A journal article with 3 authors

Nugent FS, Penick EC, Kauer JA (2007) Opioids block long-term potentiation of inhibitory synapses. Nature 446:1086–1090

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Curran SP, Wu X, Riedel CG, Ruvkun G (2009) A soma-to-germline transformation in long-lived Caenorhabditis elegans mutants. Nature 459:1079–1084

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hersent O, Petit J-P, Gurle D (2005) IP Telephony. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Borisov N, Goldberg I (eds) (2008) Privacy Enhancing Technologies: 8th International Symposium, PETS 2008 Leuven, Belgium, July 23-25, 2008 Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Ganpule AP, Desai MR (2014) PNL: Indications and Guidelines: Urolithiasis. In: Scoffone CM, Hoznek A, Cracco CM (eds) Supine Percutaneous Nephrolithotomy and ECIRS: The New Way of Interpreting PNL. Springer, Paris, pp 25–31

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 (2016) Gut Bacteria Found In African Apes Perfectly Match Our Evolutionary Relationships. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/gut-bacteria-found-in-african-apes-perfectly-match-our-evolutionary-relationships/. 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 (1985) U.S. Citizens Studying Medicine Abroad. 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

Haws SW (2012) A multilevel study of schools’ influences on adolescent substance use. Doctoral dissertation, University of North Carolina

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

Kishkovsky S (2004) Critics See Kremlin’s Hand in Charges Against Ex-K.G.B. Agent. New York Times 127

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Lengauer 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Lengauer 2003; Kliebenstein and Rowe 2009).

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

Two authors: (Kliebenstein and Rowe 2009)
Three or more authors: (Curran et al. 2009)

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