How to format your references using the Food Bioscience citation style

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

Sheng, P. (2006). Applied physics. Waves on the horizon. Science (New York, N.Y.), 313(5792), 1399–1400.

A journal article with 2 authors

Wigley, T. M., & Raper, S. C. (2001). Interpretation of high projections for global-mean warming. Science (New York, N.Y.), 293(5529), 451–454.

A journal article with 3 authors

Li, X., Zhao, J., & Yang, J. (2013). Semihydrogenated BN sheet: a promising visible-light driven photocatalyst for water splitting. Scientific Reports, 3, 1858.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Muhar, M., Ebert, A., Neumann, T., Umkehrer, C., Jude, J., Wieshofer, C., Rescheneder, P., Lipp, J. J., Herzog, V. A., Reichholf, B., Cisneros, D. A., Hoffmann, T., Schlapansky, M. F., Bhat, P., von Haeseler, A., Köcher, T., Obenauf, A. C., Popow, J., Ameres, S. L., & Zuber, J. (2018). SLAM-seq defines direct gene-regulatory functions of the BRD4-MYC axis. Science (New York, N.Y.), 360(6390), 800–805.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Petrozzi, S. (2012). Practical Instrumental Analysis. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Meneghini, F. (2012). Clinical Facial Analysis: Elements, Principles, and Techniques (P. Biondi, Ed.; 2nd ed. 2012). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Ventura, D. (2015). The Computational Creativity Complex. In T. R. Besold, M. Schorlemmer, & A. Smaill (Eds.), Computational Creativity Research: Towards Creative Machines (pp. 65–92). Atlantis Press.

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 Bioscience.

Blog post

Hale, T. (2017, March 3). Strange Sighting Of Creepy Turkeys Forming A Marching Circle Around A Dead Cat. IFLScience; IFLScience.

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. (2008). Transportation Security: Transportation Security Administration Has Strengthened Planning to Guide Investments in Key Aviation and Surface Transportation Security Programs, but More Work Remains (GAO-08-487T). 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

Khojandi, N. (2017). Investigating Secondary Infections and their Impact on Host Fitness in the Dictyostelium-Burkholderia Symbiosis System [Doctoral dissertation]. Southern Illinois 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

Kenigsberg, B. (2017, June 1). Film Series. New York Times, C24.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Sheng, 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Sheng, 2006; Wigley & Raper, 2001).

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

Two authors: (Wigley & Raper, 2001)
Three or more authors: (Muhar et al., 2018)

About the journal

Full journal title	Food Bioscience
Abbreviation	Food Biosci.
ISSN (print)	2212-4292
Scope	Food Science Biochemistry