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

Fuyuno, I. (2005). Ancient foil maker wraps up mobile-phone market. Nature, 436(7052), 775.

A journal article with 2 authors

Farmer, M. E., & Baran, P. S. (2015). Organic chemistry: A cure for catalyst poisoning. Nature, 524(7564), 164–165.

A journal article with 3 authors

David, C., Mortensen, N. A., & Christensen, J. (2013). Perfect imaging, epsilon-near zero phenomena and waveguiding in the scope of nonlocal effects. Scientific Reports, 3, 2526.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Polin, M., Tuval, I., Drescher, K., Gollub, J. P., & Goldstein, R. E. (2009). Chlamydomonas swims with two “gears” in a eukaryotic version of run-and-tumble locomotion. Science (New York, N.Y.), 325(5939), 487–490.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Webb, R. C. (2005). Tele-Visionaries. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Trobec, R., Vajteršic, M., & Zinterhof, P. (Eds.). (2009). Parallel Computing: Numerics, Applications, and Trends (1st ed.). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Tongying, P., Zhukovskyi, M., & Kuno, M. (2015). Synthesis and Application of Solution-Based II–VI and IV–VI Semiconductor Nanowires. In Q. Li (Ed.), Anisotropic Nanomaterials: Preparation, Properties, and Applications (pp. 119–156). Springer International Publishing.

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

Hamilton, K. (2015, September 30). Plastic-Eating Mealworms Could Help Reduce Landfill Waste. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/plastic-eating-mealworms-could-help-reduce-landfill-waste/

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. (1989). Biotechnology: Backlog of Patent Applications (RCED-89-120BR). 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

Clark, S. (2014). Psychological resilience, daily stressors, and implications for physical activity levels in mothers with young children [Doctoral dissertation]. California State University, Long Beach.

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

Shear, M. D., & Davis, J. H. (2017, September 5). U.S. Ends Program Giving ‘Dreamers’ Legal Protection. New York Times, A1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Fuyuno, 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Farmer & Baran, 2015; Fuyuno, 2005).

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

Two authors: (Farmer & Baran, 2015)
Three authors: (David et al., 2013)
6 or more authors: (Polin et al., 2009)

About the journal

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