How to format your references using the Food Control citation style

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

Freeman, M. (2000). Feedback control of intercellular signalling in development. Nature, 408(6810), 313–319.

A journal article with 2 authors

Loehlin, D. W., & Werren, J. H. (2012). Evolution of shape by multiple regulatory changes to a growth gene. Science (New York, N.Y.), 335(6071), 943–947.

A journal article with 3 authors

Berkley, K. J., Rapkin, A. J., & Papka, R. E. (2005). The pains of endometriosis. Science (New York, N.Y.), 308(5728), 1587–1589.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Knowles, T. P. J., Waudby, C. A., Devlin, G. L., Cohen, S. I. A., Aguzzi, A., Vendruscolo, M., Terentjev, E. M., Welland, M. E., & Dobson, C. M. (2009). An analytical solution to the kinetics of breakable filament assembly. Science (New York, N.Y.), 326(5959), 1533–1537.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Dorronsoro, B., Ruiz, P., Danoy, G., Pigné, Y., & Bouvry, P. (2014). Evolutionary Algorithms for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Nishizaki, I., & Sakawa, M. (Eds.). (2009). Cooperative and Noncooperative Multi-Level Programming (Vol. 48). Springer US.

A chapter in an edited book

Kubicek, J., Penhaker, M., Pavelova, K., Selamat, A., Hudak, R., & Majernik, J. (2015). Segmentation of MRI Data to Extract the Blood Vessels Based on Fuzzy Thresholding. In D. Barbucha, N. T. Nguyen, & J. Batubara (Eds.), New Trends in Intelligent Information and Database Systems (pp. 43–52). 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 Control.

Blog post

Taub, B. (2016, August 10). Dark Web Drug Sales Have Tripled Since Silk Road Got Busted. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/dark-web-drug-sales-tripled-since-silk-road-rumbled/

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). Student Discipline: Individuals With Disabilities Education Act (GAO-01-210). 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

Siczek, M. M. (2014). Negotiating Socioacademic Space: The Lived Experience of International Second-Language Students in a Mainstream First-year Writing Course [Doctoral dissertation]. George Washington University.

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

Pilon, M. (2013, September 2). Before Attempting To Top Opponents, U.S. Open Players Must Beat Traffic. New York Times, D1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Freeman, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Freeman, 2000; Loehlin & Werren, 2012).

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

Two authors: (Loehlin & Werren, 2012)
Three authors: (Berkley et al., 2005)
6 or more authors: (Knowles et al., 2009)

About the journal

Full journal title	Food Control
Abbreviation	Food Control
ISSN (print)	0956-7135
Scope	Food Science Biotechnology