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

Costandi, M. (2014). Rehabilitation: machine recovery. Nature, 510(7506), S8-9.

A journal article with 2 authors

Stive, M. J. F., & Reniers, A. J. H. M. (2003). Geophysics. Sandbars in motion. Science (New York, N.Y.), 299(5614), 1855–1856.

A journal article with 3 authors

Rössler, U. K., Bogdanov, A. N., & Pfleiderer, C. (2006). Spontaneous skyrmion ground states in magnetic metals. Nature, 442(7104), 797–801.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Kimchi-Sarfaty, C., Oh, J. M., Kim, I.-W., Sauna, Z. E., Calcagno, A. M., Ambudkar, S. V., & Gottesman, M. M. (2007). A “silent” polymorphism in the MDR1 gene changes substrate specificity. Science (New York, N.Y.), 315(5811), 525–528.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Anaya-Lara, O., Campos-Gaona, D., Moreno-Goytia, E., & Adam, G. (2014). Offshore Wind Energy Generation. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Poovendran, R., Roy, S., & Wang, C. (Eds.). (2007). Secure Localization and Time Synchronization for Wireless Sensor and Ad Hoc Networks (Vol. 30). Springer US.

A chapter in an edited book

Vujanic, G. M. (2014). Pathology of Renal Tumours of Childhood. In K. Pritchard-Jones & J. S. Dome (Eds.), Renal Tumors of Childhood: Biology and Therapy (pp. 53–76). 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 Control.

Blog post

Andrew, D. (2017, January 16). This Is The Single Best Diet For Your Overall Health, According To Nutrition Experts. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/this-is-the-single-best-diet-for-your-overall-health-according-to-nutrition-experts/

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. (1981). Review of Yolo County, California, Economic Opportunity Commission Concerning Matters Affecting Local Poverty Programs (HRD-81-110). 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

O’Grady, C. R. (2009). Journeys of our ancestors: Conservation science approaches to the analysis of cultural material [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Arizona.

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

Ruiz, R. R. (2016, October 5). Sharapova Suspension Is Cut by Nine Months. New York Times, B8.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Costandi, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Costandi, 2014; Stive & Reniers, 2003).

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

Two authors: (Stive & Reniers, 2003)
Three authors: (Rössler et al., 2006)
6 or more authors: (Kimchi-Sarfaty et al., 2007)

About the journal

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