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

Scodeggio, M. (2001). Astronomy. Toward resolving the mystery of galaxy formation. Science (New York, N.Y.), 294(5542), 537–538.

A journal article with 2 authors

Win, M. N., & Smolke, C. D. (2008). Higher-order cellular information processing with synthetic RNA devices. Science (New York, N.Y.), 322(5900), 456–460.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bragg, A. E., Cavanagh, M. C., & Schwartz, B. J. (2008). Linear response breakdown in solvation dynamics induced by atomic electron-transfer reactions. Science (New York, N.Y.), 321(5897), 1817–1822.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Schwab, J. M., Chiang, N., Arita, M., & Serhan, C. N. (2007). Resolvin E1 and protectin D1 activate inflammation-resolution programmes. Nature, 447(7146), 869–874.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Fliszár, S. (2008). Atomic Charges, Bond Properties, and Molecular Energies. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Aroyo, L., Welty, C., Alani, H., Taylor, J., Bernstein, A., Kagal, L., Noy, N., & Blomqvist, E. (Eds.). (2011). The Semantic Web – ISWC 2011: 10th International Semantic Web Conference, Bonn, Germany, October 23-27, 2011, Proceedings, Part I (Vol. 7031). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Boer, H. (2016). Advanced Manufacturing Technologies and Strategically Flexible Production. A Review and Outlook. In E. Bartezzaghi, R. Cagliano, F. Caniato, & S. Ronchi (Eds.), A Journey through Manufacturing and Supply Chain Strategy Research: A Tribute to Professor Gianluca Spina (pp. 71–110). Springer International Publishing.

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

Andrews, R. (2017, February 1). Missing Continent Was Destroyed By India And Madagascar’s Tug-Of-War. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/missing-continent-destroyed-india-madagascar-tugofwar/

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. (1996). Content Analysis: A Methodology for Structuring and Analyzing Written Material (PEMD-10.3.1). 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

De Felice, D. (2013). A Phenomenological Study of Teaching Endangered Languages Online: Perspectives from Nahua and Mayan Educators [Doctoral dissertation]. University of South Florida.

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

Gorman, J. (2017, October 24). Simple Signal Sets Off Complex Frog Journey. New York Times, D4.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Scodeggio, 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Scodeggio, 2001; Win & Smolke, 2008).

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

Two authors: (Win & Smolke, 2008)
Three authors: (Bragg et al., 2008)
6 or more authors: (Schwab et al., 2007)

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)