How to format your references using the Food Ethics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Food Ethics. For a complete guide how to prepare your manuscript refer to the journal's instructions to authors.

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Using reference management software

Typically you don't format your citations and bibliography by hand. The easiest way is to use a reference manager:

PaperpileThe citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNoteFind the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and othersThe style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
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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
Zhang, Xiaoyu. 2014. Plant science. Delayed gratification--waiting to terminate stem cell identity. Science (New York, N.Y.) 343: 498–499.
A journal article with 2 authors
Hannisdal, Bjarte, and Shanan E. Peters. 2011. Phanerozoic Earth system evolution and marine biodiversity. Science (New York, N.Y.) 334: 1121–1124.
A journal article with 3 authors
Schwartz, Jeffrey H., Ian Tattersall, and Zhang Chi. 2014. Comment on “A complete skull from Dmanisi, Georgia, and the evolutionary biology of early Homo.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 344: 360.
A journal article with 11 or more authors
Hoffmeister, Karin M., Emma C. Josefsson, Natasha A. Isaac, Henrik Clausen, John H. Hartwig, and Thomas P. Stossel. 2003. Glycosylation restores survival of chilled blood platelets. Science (New York, N.Y.) 301: 1531–1534.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
Wolbarst, Anthony B., Patrizio Capasso, and Andrew R. Wyant. 2013. Medical Imaging. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
An edited book
Boulton, Andrew J. M. 2009. Managing Neuropathic Pain in the Diabetic Patient. Edited by Loretta Vileikyte. Second Edition. Tarporley: Springer Healthcare Ltd.
A chapter in an edited book
Muñoz, Antonio, Daniel Serrano, and Antonio Maña. 2008. Secure Profiles as a Cornerstone in Emerging Ambient Intelligence Scenarios. In Developing Ambient Intelligence: Proceedings of the International Conference on Ambient Intelligence Developments (AmI.d’07), ed. Carsten Rudolph, 34–46. Paris: 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 Ethics.

Blog post
Fang, Janet. 2015. Newly Discovered Duck-Billed Dinosaur Lived In Cold, Snowy Alaska. IFLScience. IFLScience. September 23.

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. 1980. Highway Safety Research and Development--Better Management Can Make It More Useful. CED-80-87A. Washington, DC: 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
Baghaei Lakeh, Arash. 2013. Approximate Analytical Solutions of a Generalized van der Pol Oscillator. Doctoral dissertation, Edwardsville, IL: Southern Illinois 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
Greenhouse, Linda. 2006. Justices Ponder Conditions For Automatic Deportation. New York Times, October 4.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Zhang 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Hannisdal and Peters 2011; Zhang 2014).

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

  • Two authors: (Hannisdal and Peters 2011)
  • Three or more authors: (Hoffmeister et al. 2003)

About the journal

Full journal titleFood Ethics
AbbreviationFood Ethics
ISSN (print)2364-6853
ISSN (online)2364-6861
Scope

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