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

Bohannon, J. (2008). The Gonzo Scientist. Slaying monsters for science. Science (New York, N.Y.), 320(5883), 1592.

A journal article with 2 authors

Allman, E. S., & Rhodes, J. A. (2010). Evolution. Trees, fast and accurate. Science (New York, N.Y.), 327(5971), 1334–1335.

A journal article with 3 authors

Zhang, Y., Magan, J. J., & Blau, W. J. (2014). A general strategy for hybrid thin film fabrication and transfer onto arbitrary substrates. Scientific Reports, 4, 4822.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Nicol, S., Pauly, T., Bindoff, N. L., Wright, S., Thiele, D., Hosie, G. W., Strutton, P. G., & Woehler, E. (2000). Ocean circulation off east Antarctica affects ecosystem structure and sea-ice extent. Nature, 406(6795), 504–507.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Sierra, M. A., de la Torre, M. C., & Cossío, F. P. (2013). More Dead Ends and Detours. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Kapur, S., & Erşahin, S. (Eds.). (2014). Soil Security for Ecosystem Management: Mediterranean Soil Ecosystems 1 (Vol. 8). Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Johnson, M. R. (2015). A Primer on Economic Choice Automata. In C. Binder, G. Codognato, M. Teschl, & Y. Xu (Eds.), Individual and Collective Choice and Social Welfare: Essays in Honor of Nick Baigent (pp. 65–94). Springer.

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

Fang, J. (2014, June 24). Earth-Sized “Diamond” Discovered in Space. 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. (2001). Information Technology: DLA Should Strengthen Business Systems Modernization Architecture and Investment Activities (GAO-01-631). 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

Ebrahimi, A. (2015). A recreational and vocational program for foster youth who reside in group homes: A grant proposal [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

Johnson, K. (2015, December 13). From Iraq to Oregon, a Global Lotto Jackpot. New York Times, A15.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Bohannon, 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Allman & Rhodes, 2010; Bohannon, 2008).

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

Two authors: (Allman & Rhodes, 2010)
Three authors: (Zhang et al., 2014)
6 or more authors: (Nicol et al., 2000)

About the journal

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

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