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

Boyd R (2015) Charles H. Townes (1915-2015). Nature 519:292

A journal article with 2 authors

Bongaarts J, Over M (2010) Public health. Global HIV/AIDS policy in transition. Science 328:1359–1360

A journal article with 3 authors

Aitken CM, Jones DM, Larter SR (2004) Anaerobic hydrocarbon biodegradation in deep subsurface oil reservoirs. Nature 431:291–294

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Pighin JA, Zheng H, Balakshin LJ, et al (2004) Plant cuticular lipid export requires an ABC transporter. Science 306:702–704

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Armaroli N, Balzani V, Serpone N (2013) Powering Planet Earth. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany

An edited book

Szabó R, Zhu H, Imre S, Chaparadza R (eds) (2011) Access Networks: 5th International ICST Conference on Access Networks, AccessNets 2010 and First ICST International Workshop on Autonomic Networking and Self-Management in Access Networks, SELFMAGICNETS 2010, Budapest, Hungary, November 3-5, 2010, Revised Selected Papers. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Kerekes R, Walgenbach P (2016) Don’t Be Unhappy, You Can Be Perfect! The Institutionalization of Aesthetic Surgery. In: Weik E, Walgenbach P (eds) Institutions Inc. Palgrave Macmillan UK, London, pp 63–93

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

O`Callaghan J (2017) Watch Live As SpaceX Relaunches One Of Its Rockets For The First Time Today. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/watch-live-as-spacex-relaunches-a-rocket-for-the-first-time/. 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 (2015) Drug-Impaired Driving: Additional Support Needed for Public Awareness Initiatives. 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

Coulibaly I (2017) Influence of Gender and Age on the Performance of a PBIS program: Quantitative Analysis of Secondary Data from a Midwestern Suburban Public Middle School. Doctoral dissertation, Lindenwood University

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

Crow K (2001) UPPER WEST SIDE. New York Times 145

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Boyd 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Bongaarts and Over 2010; Boyd 2015).

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

Two authors: (Bongaarts and Over 2010)
Three or more authors: (Pighin et al. 2004)

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

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