How to format your references using the Food Packaging and Shelf Life citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Food Packaging and Shelf Life. 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

Ford, A. T. (2015). The mechanistic pathways of trophic interactions in human-occupied landscapes. Science (New York, N.Y.), 350(6265), 1175.

A journal article with 2 authors

Zhang, W., & Luck, S. J. (2008). Discrete fixed-resolution representations in visual working memory. Nature, 453(7192), 233–235.

A journal article with 3 authors

Green, M. T., Dawson, J. H., & Gray, H. B. (2004). Oxoiron(IV) in chloroperoxidase compound II is basic: implications for P450 chemistry. Science (New York, N.Y.), 304(5677), 1653–1656.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Heit, J. J., Apelqvist, A. A., Gu, X., Winslow, M. M., Neilson, J. R., Crabtree, G. R., & Kim, S. K. (2006). Calcineurin/NFAT signalling regulates pancreatic beta-cell growth and function. Nature, 443(7109), 345–349.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Morton, A., Mengersen, K., Whitby, M., & Playford, G. (2013). Statistical Methods for Hospital Monitoring with R. John Wiley & Sons Ltd.

An edited book

Su, B., & Thomson, E. (Eds.). (2016). China’s Energy Efficiency and Conservation: Household Behaviour, Legislation, Regional Analysis and Impacts (Vol. 31). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Riley, L., Atkinson, K., Payne, T., & Black, E. (2012). An Implemented Dialogue System for Inquiry and Persuasion. In S. Modgil, N. Oren, & F. Toni (Eds.), Theorie and Applications of Formal Argumentation: First International Workshop, TAFA 2011. Barcelona, Spain, July 16-17, 2011, Revised Selected Papers (pp. 67–84). 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 Packaging and Shelf Life.

Blog post

Andrew, D. (2016, August 22). 5 Of The Biggest Myths And Misconceptions About Zika, Debunked. IFLScience; IFLScience.

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. (2000). Contract Management: Few Competing Proposals for Large DOD Information Technology Orders (NSIAD-00-56). 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

Chhun, S. (2010). Assessing the role of vacuolar trafficking in fifteen candidate env genes at the late endosome to vacuole interface in S. cerevisiae [Doctoral dissertation]. California State University, Long Beach.

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

de la MERCED, M. J. (2017, September 18). Northrop Grumman to Buy Orbital ATK for $7.8 Billion. New York Times, B4.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Ford, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Ford, 2015; Zhang & Luck, 2008).

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

Two authors: (Zhang & Luck, 2008)
Three authors: (Green et al., 2004)
6 or more authors: (Heit et al., 2006)

About the journal

Full journal title	Food Packaging and Shelf Life
Abbreviation	Food Packag. Shelf Life
ISSN (print)	2214-2894
Scope	Food Science Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality Biomaterials Polymers and Plastics Microbiology (medical)