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

Goldston, D. (2008). US election: Not the best advice. Nature, 455(7212), 453.

A journal article with 2 authors

Pitaevskii, L., & Stringari, S. (2002). Ultracold matter. The quest for superfluidity in Fermi gases. Science (New York, N.Y.), 298(5601), 2144–2146.

A journal article with 3 authors

Coppedè, N., Villani, M., & Gentile, F. (2014). Diffusion driven selectivity in organic electrochemical transistors. Scientific reports, 4, 4297.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Osterloh, A., Amico, L., Falci, G., & Fazio, R. (2002). Scaling of entanglement close to a quantum phase transition. Nature, 416(6881), 608–610.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Higman, B. W. (2011). How Food Made History. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Takeda, H. (Ed.). (2016). Micro-Performance During Postwar Japan’s High-Growth Era. Singapore: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Javed, O., & Shah, M. (2008). Tracking in Multiple Cameras with Disjoint Views. In M. Shah (Ed.), Automated Multi-Camera Surveillance: Algorithms and Practice (pp. 1–26). Boston, MA: Springer US.

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

Taub, B. (2016, August 25). Meet Octobot, The First Ever Fully Soft-Bodied Robot. IFLScience. IFLScience. 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. (2001). Aviation Competition: Restricting Airline Ticketing Rules Unlikely to Help Consumers (No. GAO-01-831). 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

Gamez, T. E. (2012). Preventing child maltreatment among children with non-resident fathers: A grant proposal (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Judah, B. (2016, December 29). London rolls out the kleptocrats’ carpet. New York Times, p. A9.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Goldston 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Goldston 2008; Pitaevskii and Stringari 2002).

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

Two authors: (Pitaevskii and Stringari 2002)
Three or more authors: (Osterloh et al. 2002)

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