How to format your references using the Food Digestion: Research and Current Opinion citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Food Digestion: Research and Current Opinion. 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

Marshall CR (2006) Evolution. Fossil record reveals tropics as cradle and museum. Science 314:66–67

A journal article with 2 authors

Bers DM, Harris SP (2011) Translational medicine: to the rescue of the failing heart. Nature 473:36–39

A journal article with 3 authors

Hays GC, Houghton JDR, Myers AE (2004) Endangered species: Pan-Atlantic leatherback turtle movements. Nature 429:522

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Michaud M, Martins I, Sukkurwala AQ, et al (2011) Autophagy-dependent anticancer immune responses induced by chemotherapeutic agents in mice. Science 334:1573–1577

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Goldberger AL, Goldberger ZD (2012) Becoming a Consummate Clinician. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Hossain E (2009) Heterogeneous Wireless Access Networks: Architectures and Protocols. Springer US, Boston, MA

A chapter in an edited book

Humar A, Matas AJ (2006) Kidney Transplantation. In: Matas AJ, Payne WD (eds) Atlas of Organ Transplantation. Springer, London, pp 91–131

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 Digestion: Research and Current Opinion.

Blog post

Andrews R (2016) Fearsome Dinosaur With Ludicrously Tiny Arms Means T. Rex Wasn’t Alone. In: IFLScience. Accessed 30 Oct 2018

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 (1973) Defaulted Loans Under the Guaranteed Student Loan Program. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Pobat M (2012) It is all in the Mind of the Manager—Using Cognitive Complexity to Explore the Global Mindset—A Comparative Case Study. 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

Shear MD, Plumer B (2017) Trump Has Choice to Make Between Science and His Base. New York Times A14

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1, 2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Food Digestion: Research and Current Opinion
Abbreviation	Food Dig.
ISSN (print)	1869-1978
ISSN (online)	1869-1986
Scope	Food Science Gastroenterology