How to format your references using the Food Engineering Reviews citation style

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

Vinge V (2000) Win a Nobel prize! Nature 407:679

A journal article with 2 authors

Smock RG, Gierasch LM (2009) Sending signals dynamically. Science 324:198–203

A journal article with 3 authors

Lykotrafitis G, Rosakis AJ, Ravichandran G (2006) Self-healing pulse-like shear ruptures in the laboratory. Science 313:1765–1768

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Seifermann SM, Réthoré C, Muller T, Bräse S (2013) Soccer goes BOXing: synthetic access to novel [6:0] hexakis[(bisoxazolinyl)methano]fullerenes. Sci Rep 3:2817

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hübschmann H-J (2015) Handbook of GC-MS. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany

An edited book

Quarteroni A (2012) Calcolo Scientifico: Esercizi e problemi risolti con MATLAB e Octave, 5a edizione. Springer, Milano

A chapter in an edited book

Penati A (2015) The Role of Humanistic Disciplines in a Pedagogy of AdvanceDesign. In: Celi M (ed) Advanced Design Cultures: Long-Term Perspective and Continuous Innovation. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 69–85

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 Engineering Reviews.

Blog post

Andrew E (2015) Personal Microbiomes Could Be Used To Identify Individuals. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/personal-microbiomes-could-be-used-identify-individuals/. 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 (1998) Student Loans: Effect of Including Certain Types of Loans in Calculating Schools’ Default Rates. 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

Lamanna CA (2012) The structure and function of subalpine ecosystems in the face of climate change. 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

Cooper M, Walsh MW (2011) Interest Adds Up to a $1.3 Billion Bill for States. New York Times A1

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 Engineering Reviews
Abbreviation	Food Eng. Rev.
ISSN (print)	1866-7910
ISSN (online)	1866-7929
Scope	Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering