How to format your references using the Food Chemistry: X citation style

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

Leonhardt, U. (2013). Applied physics: cloaking of heat. Nature, 498(7455), 440–441.

A journal article with 2 authors

Libuda, D. E., & Winston, F. (2006). Amplification of histone genes by circular chromosome formation in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Nature, 443(7114), 1003–1007.

A journal article with 3 authors

MacLehose, L., McKee, M., & Weinberg, J. (2002). Responding to the challenge of communicable disease in Europe. Science (New York, N.Y.), 295(5562), 2047–2050.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Meier, F., Zhou, L., Wiebe, J., & Wiesendanger, R. (2008). Revealing magnetic interactions from single-atom magnetization curves. Science (New York, N.Y.), 320(5872), 82–86.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bragg, S. M. (2011). The Controller’s Function. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Miesenberger, K., Klaus, J., Zagler, W., & Karshmer, A. (Eds.). (2008). Computers Helping People with Special Needs: 11th International Conference, ICCHP 2008, Linz, Austria, July 9-11, 2008. Proceedings (Vol. 5105). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Yao, L.-C., & McDonald, D. M. (2014). Plasticity of Airway Lymphatics in Development and Disease. In F. Kiefer & S. Schulte-Merker (Eds.), Developmental Aspects of the Lymphatic Vascular System (pp. 41–54). 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: X.

Blog post

Fang, J. (2015, July 10). Seabirds Navigate the Open Ocean Using Scent Maps. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/seabirds-navigate-open-ocean-using-scent-maps/

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. (1987). Decisions of the Comptroller General of the United States, Volume 67, November 1987 (087967). 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

Jordan, E. A. (2010). The semiconductor industry and emerging technologies: A study using a modified Delphi method [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Phoenix.

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

Montague, J. (2017, January 11). Door Opens to Hinterlands of Soccer. New York Times, B10.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Leonhardt, 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Leonhardt, 2013; Libuda & Winston, 2006).

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

Two authors: (Libuda & Winston, 2006)
Three or more authors: (Meier et al., 2008)

About the journal

Full journal title	Food Chemistry: X
ISSN (print)	2590-1575
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