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

O’Neill, L. A. J. (2014). Biochemistry: succinate strikes. Nature, 515(7527), 350–351.

A journal article with 2 authors

Foster, D. J., & Wilson, M. A. (2006). Reverse replay of behavioural sequences in hippocampal place cells during the awake state. Nature, 440(7084), 680–683.

A journal article with 3 authors

Mongillo, G., Barak, O., & Tsodyks, M. (2008). Synaptic theory of working memory. Science (New York, N.Y.), 319(5869), 1543–1546.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Siveter, D. J., Sutton, M. D., Briggs, D. E. G., & Siveter, D. J. (2003). An ostracode crustacean with soft parts from the Lower Silurian. Science (New York, N.Y.), 302(5651), 1749–1751.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kindmann, R., & Kraus, M. (2012). Steel Structures. Ernst & Sohn Verlag für Architektur und technische Wissenschaften GmbH & Co. KG.

An edited book

Nickerson, C. A., & Schurr, M. J. (Eds.). (2006). Molecular Paradigms of Infectious Disease: A Bacterial Perspective. Springer US.

A chapter in an edited book

Lv, C., Qiang, R., Fan, F., & Yang, J. (2015). Knowledge-Based Query Expansion in Real-Time Microblog Search. In G. Zuccon, S. Geva, H. Joho, F. Scholer, A. Sun, & P. Zhang (Eds.), Information Retrieval Technology: 11th Asia Information Retrieval Societies Conference, AIRS 2015, Brisbane, QLD, Australia, December 2-4, 2015. Proceedings (pp. 43–55). 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 Chemistry.

Blog post

O`Callaghan, J. (2017, March 31). Astronomers Don’t Know What Caused This Massive Burst Of X-rays In The Universe. 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. (1977). Impact of Illegal Aliens on Public Assistance Programs: Too Little Is Known (GGD-78-20). 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

Williams, K. (2016). From Cribs to Crayons: A Study on the Use of Universal Curriculum and Assessment of Preschool Students and Teachers in the Classroom [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Louisiana.

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

St. John Kelly, E. (1998, April 5). Almost Tudor Interior, but Ignoble Facade. New York Times, 149.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (O’Neill, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Foster & Wilson, 2006; O’Neill, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Foster & Wilson, 2006)
Three or more authors: (Siveter et al., 2003)

About the journal

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