How to format your references using the Food Chemistry citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Food Chemistry. 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	Download the output style file
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

Strobl, M. (2014). General solution for quantitative dark-field contrast imaging with grating interferometers. Scientific Reports, 4, 7243.

A journal article with 2 authors

Xu, G., & Long, G. (2014). Universal nonadiabatic geometric gates in two-qubit decoherence-free subspaces. Scientific Reports, 4, 6814.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hanna, J. B., Schmitt, D., & Griffin, T. M. (2008). The energetic cost of climbing in primates. Science (New York, N.Y.), 320(5878), 898.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Patabendige, C. N. K., Azad, A. K., Connor, P. A., Rolle, A., & Irvine, J. T. S. (2013). Remarkable transition from rocksalt/perovskite layered structure to fluorite/rocksalt layered structure in rapidly cooled Ln₂CuO₄. Scientific Reports, 3, 1504.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Mishra, A. R. (2010). Cellular Technologies for Emerging Markets. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Pommier, Y. (Ed.). (2012). DNA Topoisomerases and Cancer (1st ed.). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Ebara, M., Kotsuchibashi, Y., Uto, K., Aoyagi, T., Kim, Y.-J., Narain, R., Idota, N., & Hoffman, J. M. (2014). Smart Surfaces. In Y. Kotsuchibashi, R. Narain, N. Idota, Y.-J. Kim, J. M. Hoffman, K. Uto, & T. Aoyagi (Eds.), Smart Biomaterials (pp. 115–188). Springer Japan.

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 Chemistry.

Blog post

Carpineti, A. (2016, October 6). Six Weeks Of Meteor Showers Starts Tomorrow With The Draconids. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/six-weeks-of-meteor-showers-starts-tomorrow-with-the-draconids/

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. (2007). Airport Finance: Preliminary Analysis Indicates Proposed Changes in the Airport Improvement Program May Not Resolve Funding Needs for Smaller Airports (GAO-07-617T). 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

Mikhailik, Y. (2013). Longing Limned [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

Vlasic, B. (2015, September 16). Autoworkers’ Union Reaches Tentative Deal With Fiat Chrysler. New York Times, B2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Strobl, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Strobl, 2014; Xu & Long, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Xu & Long, 2014)
Three authors: (Hanna et al., 2008)
6 or more authors: (Patabendige et al., 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Food Chemistry
Abbreviation	Food Chem.
ISSN (print)	0308-8146
Scope	Food Science Analytical Chemistry General Medicine