How to format your references using the Food and Environmental Virology citation style

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

Arnold, F. H. (2001). Combinatorial and computational challenges for biocatalyst design. Nature, 409(6817), 253–257.

A journal article with 2 authors

Dustin, M. L., & Meyer-Hermann, M. (2012). Immunology. Antigen feast or famine. Science (New York, N.Y.), 335(6067), 408–409.

A journal article with 3 authors

Zehn, D., Lee, S. Y., & Bevan, M. J. (2009). Complete but curtailed T-cell response to very low-affinity antigen. Nature, 458(7235), 211–214.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Yamamoto, K., Gildenberg, M., Ahuja, S., Im, S.-C., Pearcy, P., Waskell, L., & Ramamoorthy, A. (2013). Probing the transmembrane structure and topology of microsomal cytochrome-p450 by solid-state NMR on temperature-resistant bicelles. Scientific reports, 3, 2556.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Jawlik, A. A. (2016). Statistics from A to Z: Confusing Concepts Clarified. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Goble, L., & Meyer, J.-J. C. (Eds.). (2006). Deontic Logic and Artificial Normative Systems: 8th International Workshop on Deontic Logic in Computer Science, DEON 2006, Utrecht, The Netherlands, July 12-14, 2006. Proceedings (Vol. 4048). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Murphy, S. E., & von Weymarn, L. B. (2008). Mechanism-Based Inactivation of Cytochrome P450 2A and 2B Enzymes. In A. Elfarra (Ed.), Advances in Bioactivation Research (pp. 1–29). New York, NY: Springer.

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 and Environmental Virology.

Blog post

Fang, J. (2015, May 27). New Hominin Species Discovered in Ethiopia. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/new-hominin-species-discovered-ethiopia/. Accessed 30 October 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. (1990). Air Traffic Control: Continuing Delays Anticipated for the Advanced Automation System (No. IMTEC-90-63). Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Grandon, J. (2015). The Distribution of Apiaceae in Lafayette and St. Martin Parishes (Doctoral dissertation). University of Louisiana, Lafayette, LA.

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

(nyt), S. K. (2003, February 21). World Briefing | Europe: Russia: Soldier Kills 4 Comrades, Then Himself. New York Times, p. A12.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Arnold 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Arnold 2001; Dustin and Meyer-Hermann 2012).

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

Two authors: (Dustin and Meyer-Hermann 2012)
Three or more authors: (Yamamoto et al. 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Food and Environmental Virology
Abbreviation	Food Environ. Virol.
ISSN (print)	1867-0334
ISSN (online)	1867-0342
Scope	Food Science Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis Virology Epidemiology