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

Connolly, H. C., Jr. (2005). From stars to dust: looking into a circumstellar disk through chondritic meteorites. Science (New York, N.Y.), 307(5706), 75–76.

A journal article with 2 authors

Petro, J. B., & Relman, D. A. (2003). Public health. Understanding threats to scientific openness. Science (New York, N.Y.), 302(5652), 1898.

A journal article with 3 authors

Di Toro, G., Nielsen, S., & Pennacchioni, G. (2005). Earthquake rupture dynamics frozen in exhumed ancient faults. Nature, 436(7053), 1009–1012.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Rand, D. G., Dreber, A., Ellingsen, T., Fudenberg, D., & Nowak, M. A. (2009). Positive interactions promote public cooperation. Science (New York, N.Y.), 325(5945), 1272–1275.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Center for Chemical Process Safety. (2003). Guidelines for Investigating Chemical Process Incidents. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Maugin, G. A., & Metrikine, A. V. (Eds.). (2010). Mechanics of Generalized Continua: One Hundred Years After the Cosserats (First, Vol. 21). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Cleophas, T. J., & Zwinderman, A. H. (2012). Log Likelihood Ratio Tests for Safety Data Analysis. In A. H. Zwinderman (Ed.), Statistics Applied to Clinical Studies (pp. 61–68). Springer Netherlands.

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

Hamilton, K. (2014, October 6). A Man Took This Photograph Of Birds, And Turned Their Positions Into Musical Notes. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/turning-birds-music/

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. (1998). Goals 2000: Flexible Funding Supports State and Local Education Reform (HEHS-99-10). 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

Gomez, D. A. (2010). System of systems engineering: Prescribing the technical development effort to engineer a constituent system [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

Linda Greenhouse; Karen, & Gary Gately contributed reporting for this article. (2005, November 15). Supreme Court Roundup; BURDEN OF PROOF NOW ON PARENTS IN SCHOOL CASES. New York Times, A1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Connolly, 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Connolly, 2005; Petro & Relman, 2003).

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

Two authors: (Petro & Relman, 2003)
Three or more authors: (Rand et al., 2009)

About the journal

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